March 1, 2014

Good Morning! 

Today is the birthday of Lytton Strachey (1880 – 1932) who said:

“A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile.”

and

“It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.”

It is also the birthday of Ralph Ellison (1914 – 1994) who said:

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free”

and

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”

and

“We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.”

and

“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”

Happy Birthday to Robert Lowell (1917 – 1977) who said:

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”

Birthday greetings to Richard Wilbur (1921 - ) who said:

“Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.”

and

“All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know.”

Birthday wishes to Harry Belafonte (1927 - ) who said:

“You can cage the singer but not the song.”

Finally, it is the birthday of Nik Kershaw (1958 - ) who sang:

“Wouldn't it be good to be on your side
The grass is always greener over there

And wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care”