Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers: (Boston (Massachusetts), 12 March 1970). American author and editor. Through the small tall bathroom window, the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.

Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Newell Wyeth: (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 12 July 1917 – there, 16 January 2009). American realist painter. His best-known work is Christina’s World (1948). I prefer winter and fall when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story… Lees verder Andrew Wyeth

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Hamilton Wright Mabie: (December 13, 1846 – December 31, 1916). American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Adam Duritz

Adam Frederic Duritz: (Baltimore, 1 August 1964). American musician and producer. He is a singer and co-founder of Counting Crows. A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi: Chinese poet during the Tang dynasty. (born in 772 A. D. in Xinzheng, Henan, died in 846 A. D. in Luoyang). His family name (xing or shi) was Bai, his given name (ming) Juyi and his address name (zi) according to Chinese custom was Letian. ‘Juyi’ means ‘he who dwells in the simple’.… Lees verder Bai Juyi

Mercy Otis Warren

Mercy Otis Warren: (Barnstable, 25 September 1728 – Plymouth, 19 October 1814). American poet, playwright and pamphlet writer who was mainly active during the American Revolution. On the evening of December, General Washington in a most severe season, crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than men in the… Lees verder Mercy Otis Warren

Malak El Halabi

Malak El Halabi: Lebanese writer and poet. Born 1 October 1992. I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer.