Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Freedom is never given, only gained.

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett: (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909). American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism. This was one of those perfect New England days in… Lees verder Sarah Orne Jewett

Max Heindel: (Aarhus, Denmark, 23 July 1865 – Oceanside (California), United States, 6 January 1919). Pseudonym for Carl Louis von Grasshoff. Founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside, California. He founded this movement in 1909 after, according to his own account, he was initiated into the mysteries of the Rosicrucians in 1907 by an unknown… Lees verder Max Heindel

Kent Michael Nerburn: (born July 3, 1946 in Minneapolis, Minnesota). American author. He has published 16 books of creative non-fiction and essays, focusing on Native American and American culture and general spirituality. He won a Minnesota Book Award in 1995 for Neither Wolf Nor Dog and again in 2010 for The Wolf At Twilight The… Lees verder Kent Nerburn

Joseph Wood Krutch: (November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970). American author, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest. He is known for developing a pantheistic philosophy. August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. February, now more than ever, one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish… Lees verder Joseph Wood Krutch

Donald Edwin Westlake: (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008). American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series:… Lees verder Donald E. Westlake

Josephine Edna O’Brien: (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024). Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. August is a wicked month.        

Anthony Visconti: (Brooklyn, New York, 24 April 1944). American musician and music producer. In his early days, he sometimes played in the background. His best-known work is his collaboration with David Bowie, with whom he worked from 1969 until Bowie’s death in 2016. He also produced Moody Blues, T. Rex, Mary Hopkin, Thin Lizzy, Ralph… Lees verder Tony Visconti

Donald Grant Mitchell: (April 12, 1822 – December 15, 1908). American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer, and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.