John

Alii disputent, ego mirabor

[John @lilacjohn0]

@hugeswordhaver yeah, alright

[John @lilacjohn0]

heat wave

[Peter Sarris @peter_sarris]

Not adopting Montaigne’s terminology. But I have always preferred to socialise with non- academics. They are more fun, and often more interested in/ interesting re all sorts of topics as Montaigne suggested. I have had better chats re Byzantium with autodidacts than many students

[John @lilacjohn0]

with cross-shaped blossoms for all to see

[John @lilacjohn0]

@DemocritusSr Agreed. Any California DMV at 1pm on a weekday could be the eighth rung of hell.

[John @lilacjohn0]

@the_book_land 29 or 53

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

'I owe my soul to Shakespeare, to Spenser and to Blake, perhaps to William Morris, and to the English language in which I think, speak, and write, . . . everything I love has come to me through English.'

W. B. Yeats

[DonPJenn @DonPJenn]

"No elegy for the Western Canon could be complete without an appreciation of the canonical critic proper, Dr. Samuel Johnson, unmatched by any critic in any nation before or after him."

Harold Bloom

[razzle @razzledaxel]

i love you washington

[Jon Cone @JonCone]

“The Magi” by Yeats is one of the greatest poems ever written. It is eight lines.

[John @lilacjohn0]

@Kulambq Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdeen, Angel Clare, Basil Ransom, Isabel Archer

[John @lilacjohn0]

@BretVDB Coleridge's Frost At Midnight another good poem for anxious parents

[John @lilacjohn0]

@BretVDB I gift a copy of Yeats with this poem flagged whenever friends or family have a daughter

"Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned"

[John @lilacjohn0]

3/30/26

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.'

Miguel de Cervantes

[John @lilacjohn0]

Not a bad day to be only one day old

[Matthew Spencer @unpaginated]

McCarthy, like Faulkner before him, tackled subjects on a historical, geological, even cosmic scale, something that his housebound imitators, or his reflexive critics, just can't seem to do.

[Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr]

Walt Whitman, “To Be at All” #poetry