SUMMER READING ~ LECTURE D’ETE ~ LETTURA ESTIVA

 “…ALL LITERATURE IN SOME DEGREE EXISTS TO REVEAL A MORE POWERFUL AND PASSIONATE, A MORE DIVINE WORLD THAN OURS;…”    ~  W. B. YEATS   (1865-1939)   “Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”    “Let’s go get lost in books.” “One of the
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SPRINGALICIOUS SPRINGALLANEOUS

“…all literature in some degree, exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours;…”     ~  W. B. Yeats  (1865~1939) “O thou with dewy locks,  who lookest down through the clear windows of the morning, turn thine angel eyes upon our western isle, which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!”    
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IN LOVE WITH LOVE ~ EN AMOUR AVEC L’AMOUR ~ IN AMORE CON L’AMORE ~ [{HOPELESSLY ROMANTIC OR HOPEFULLY ROMANTIC}]

“…all literature in some degree, exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours;” ~W. B. Yeats  (1865~1939)                                           “Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth ~ whether it existed before or not.” ~  John Keats   (1795 ~ 1821)   “I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful
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THE BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS ~ L’OISEAU DU BONHEUR

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“…all literature in some degree exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours;”    ~ W. B. Yeats       “THE BEGGAR MAN AND HIS MIGHTY KING ARE ONLY DIFFERENT IN NAME, FOR THEY ARE TREATED JUST THE SAME BY FATE.”     ~  Bluebird of Happiness Lyrics            “ALL
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‘TIS THE SEASON ~ JOYEUX NOEL ~ BUON NATALE ~ MERRY CHRISTMAS ~ A MEDLEY

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~ MUSIC OPTIONAL ~                                        “CHRISTMAS IS NOT A TIME NOR A SEASON, BUT A STATE OF MIND.  TO CHERISH PEACE AND GOODWILL, TO BE PLENTEOUS IN MERCY, IS TO HAVE THE REAL SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS.”          ~CALVIN COOLIDGE  “CHRISTMAS WAVES A MAGIC WAND OVER THIS WORLD, AND BEHOLD, EVERYTHING IS SOFTER AND MORE
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~WHAT IS YOUR REALITY? ~WHAT IS YOUR ILLUSION?

~  WHAT IS YOUR FANTASY?     ~  WHAT IS  YOUR DREAM?  “There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm.  We wake from one dream into another.”    ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson “The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”    ~ Albert Einstein “She was seeing a
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OCTOBER’S NIGHT OF FRIGHT!

OCTOBER’S  NIGHT OF FRIGHT “Spooks galore, scary witches at your door, Jack-O-Lanterns smiling bright Wishing you a haunting night.” “By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes.”   Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1, William Shakespeare Mad Hatter:  “Have I gone mad?”  Alice:   “I’m afraid so.  You’re entirely bonkers.  But I’ll tell you a secret. 
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SEPTEMBER LEAVES ~ AND FALL FOLLOWS

“EVERY LEAF SPEAKS BLISS TO ME, FLUTTERING FROM THE AUTUMN TREE.”                                                                        ~ Emily Bronte AUTUMN LEAVES LYRICS BY JOHNNY MERCER “Autumn leaves fall and are swept out of sight.  The words that you said have gone too.   So are the memories of love that we knew. The wind of forgetfulness blow them into
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