Tag: poetry
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June 28, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That you can now be called adult does not mean you have achieved your full power, only that you are able to acquire other and larger powers.” — E.E. “Doc” Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1547: Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer. Dal vago e bel sereno 1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter. 1586 Paul…
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June 27, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw BIRTHDAYS: 1718 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, born in Vienna, Austria. Fuga (e) 1850 Lafcadio Hearn, American author (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan).1872: Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and novelist. 1880 Helen Keller, American political activist and author (The Story…
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June 26, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. We have a method, and that method…
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June 25, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If I love you, what business is it of yours?” — Goethe BIRTHDAYS:1860 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer. Depuis le jour from Louise, and Impressions d’Italie (extraits) 1878 Jean Gallon, French composer. Chant donné 1894 Hermann Oberth, German physicist (pioneer of modern astronautics/rocketry). 1903: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), British author/novelist…
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June 24, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.” — Aubrey de Grey BIRTHDAYS: 1747 Johann Melchior Dreyer, German composer. Sonata for fortepiano and cello No.5 in G major, I. Adagio II. Allegro assai 1788: Thomas Blanchard, American inventor known for his pioneering work in…
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June 23, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” — Elbert Hubbard BIRTHDAYS: 1824 Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and teacher. Flute Concerto in D major, Op. 283 1837 Ernest Guiraud, French opera composer, arranger (e.g., of Bizet), and teacher. Allegro de Concert, and Scherzo. 1852 Raoul…
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June 22, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 1611 Pablo Bruna, Spanish composer. Tiento de medio registro de mano derecha de primeiro tono, and Pange Lingua. 1684 Francesco Manfredini, Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and maestro di cappella (St. Phillip’s Cathedral, 1727-65), born in Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.…
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June 21, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor E. Frankl BIRTHDAYS: 1786 Charles Edward Horn, British opera singer, composer, and music director. Cherry ripe 1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer. Der Schiffer fährt zu Land 1896 Charles Momsen, American inventor, known…
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June 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1717 Jacques Saly, French sculptor. 1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer, cellist, and impresario who pioneered the operetta genre with nearly 100 satirical stage works that critiqued bourgeois society and…
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June 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” — Blaise Pascal BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, scientist, inventor, writer/philosopher; known for Pascal’s Law, contributions to probability, fluids, and early mechanical calculator. 1783 Thomas Sully, American portrait…
