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Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

📓Romeo and Juliet (Act-II, Scene-II) 1597 ☾.‧ ✩
🖊️Shakespeare (English Playwright) ☾.‧ ✩

🖼️Good Night(Romeo & Juliet) 1884 ☾.‧ ✩
🎨Frank Dicksee (English Illustrator) ☾.‧ ✩

#shakespearesunday
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
On a withered branch
A crow is perched
An autumn evening

📔The Complete Haiku, 1680 ↟↟ ོ ☼↟
🖊️Matsuo Bashō (Japanese Poet) ↟↟ ོ ☼↟

🖼️Crow on A willow branch, 1890 ↟↟ ོ ☼↟
🎨Okuhara Seiko (Japanese Artist) ↟↟ ོ ☼↟

#Autumn
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
..he may suffer misery, & be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him..

📔Frankenstein, 1818
🖊️Mary Shelley (English Novelist)

🖼️The Misery, 1909
🎨Adolf Werner (Austrian Painter)

#mary
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bit by bit life fades like a guttering lamp,
Passes on like a river that never rests.
Sat a long time till mists had cleared.
Moonrise—the lamp of night drifts upward;

📘Cold Mountain, circa 750
🖊️Hanshan (Chinese Hermit-Poet)
🖼️Precious Light, 2012
🎨Wu Lan-Chiann (Chinese Artist)

#hanshan
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓒𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓭𝓪𝔂

𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑢𝑗𝑖.

📔𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑎𝑡 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 2012🐾
🖊️𝐻𝑖𝑟𝑜 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑎𝑤𝑎 (𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡)🐾

🖼️𝐶𝑎𝑡 & 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑦𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑢𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑎𝑖ℎ𝑢 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘, 1740𝑠🐾
🎨𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 (𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡)🐾

#caturdayᓚᘏᗢ
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
But if you kissed her on the mouth,
her eyes would spring open.

📘Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose) 1981
🖊️Anne Sexton (US Poet)

🖼️Sleeping Beauty, 1950s
🎨 Eppo Doeve (Dutch Artist)

#bluemonday
October 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Left to herself, the serpent now began. To change; her elfin blood in madness ran...Her eyes in torture fix’d, & anguish drear...Nothing but pain and ugliness were left.

📓Lamia, 1820
🖊️John Keats (English Poet)

🖼️Lamia (From Book The Undead, 2018)
🎨Johan Egerkrans (Swedish author & Illustrator)
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂

...𝑠𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑒𝑎,
𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡,
𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑦𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑢𝑚'𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔.

📘𝐴 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑘 𝑆𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑒𝑎, 1691 ☕︎
🖊️𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑢𝑜 𝐵𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑜 (𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡) ☕︎

🖼️𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑚, 1933 ☕︎
🎨𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝐼𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑦𝑜̄ (𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟) ☕︎

#bluemonday #morningtea #chrysanthemum #calm #ichiyo #Basho
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
O glow-worms, with your eager flames..& wandering foolish fires; your gentle lights are wasted in vain..for Juliana has arrived here..& she has so displaced my mind

📘The Mower to the Glow-Worms 1681
✍️Andrew Marvell (English Poet)

🖼️The Glow Worm 1926
🎨Charles M. Relyea (US Illustrator)

#bluemonday
September 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself

📓King Lear, 1606
🖊️Shakespeare (English Playwright)

🖼️Eclips of The Sun in Venice, July 8, 1842
🎨Ippolito Caffi (Italian Painter)

#shakespearesunday
September 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛, 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑛,
𝐻𝑎𝑑 𝑦𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑑, 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑡

📓𝐼𝑑𝑦𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔, 1859 🕮
🪶𝐴𝑙𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑦𝑠𝑜𝑛 (𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡) 🕮
🖼️𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑉𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑛, 1895 🕮
🎨𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑦𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑅ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑚 (𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟) 🕮

#tennyson
September 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Temples in general are notoriously cold places because they tend to be old...I got a sense of the hardship of winter in old Japan when I visited our family temple one February..

📘Where The Dead Pause 2015
✍️M. Mutsuki(US-Japanese Author)
🖼️Rakan Temples 1830
🎨K. Hokusai(Japanese Artist)

#bluemonday
August 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒
__(𝐿𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑡)

📓𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑡 (𝐴𝑐𝑡 𝐼𝐼𝐼, 𝑆𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑉) 1597𓆩♡𓆪
🖊️𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒 (𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡)𓆩♡𓆪

🖼️𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 1850𓆩♡𓆪
🎨𝐺𝑖𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑝𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖 (𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟)𓆩♡𓆪

#ShakespeareSunday
August 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The sun poured in on her. The sea lay asleep in it, hardly stirring..She stared. Such beauty, and she there to see it. Such beauty, and she alive to feel it..

📘The Enchanted April, 1922☀︎
✍️Elizabeth Arnim (English Novelist)☀︎
🖼️From My Studio Roof, 1920☀︎
🎨Joseph Solomon (British Painter)☀︎

#bluemonday
August 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The terrace and the whole place...beyond it, all I could see of the park, were empty with a great emptiness.

📘The Turn of The Screw, 1898 ღ
✍️Henry James (US-British Author) ღ

🖼️The Terrace, Cap d’Ail, 1921 ღ
🎨Sir John Lavery (Irish Painter) ღ

#bluemonday
August 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
the moon’s an arrant thief, & her pale fire she snatches from the sun; the sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears

📖Timon of Athens(Act IV, Scene III) 1605
✍️Shakespeare(English Playwright)

🖼️Moonrise Over The Sea, 1822
🎨C. D. Friedrich(German Artist)

#shakespearesunday
July 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Olivia: Well, come again tomorrow. Fare thee well, Viola.

(She says to Viola after giving him a jewel and requesting his return the next day.)

📘Twelfth Night, 1602
🖊️Shakespeare (English Playwright)

🖼️Olivia Farewell To Viola, 1908
🎨Heath Robinson (English Illustrator)

#shakespearesunday
July 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

📘Leaves of Grass, 1855 ☼
✍️Walt Whitman (US Poet) ☼

🖼️Women on The Beach, 1913 ☼
🎨Gerda Wegener (Danish Illustrator) ☼

#bookologythursday
July 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓰𝔂 𝓣𝓱𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓭𝓪𝔂

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛, ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑧𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠, 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑦

📓𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝑉𝑒𝑔𝑎, 1619 🕮
🖊️𝐿𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝑉𝑒𝑔𝑎 (𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡) 🕮

🖼️𝑇𝑤𝑜 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑎, 1920𝑠 🕮
🎨𝐾𝑎𝑓𝑢̄ 𝑁𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖 (𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡) 🕮

#bookologythursday #reading #kafunagai #LopedeVega
July 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Suddenly, she discovered in a black satin box a superb diamond necklace & her heart throbbed with an immoderate desire..& was lost in ecstasy at her reflection in the mirror

📘The Complete Short Stories, 1902
✍️Maupassant (French Author)
🖼️Broadway Jewellery, 1920s
🎨Rutherford (US Artist)

#bluemonday
July 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
the lake a perfect mirror reflecting the sky and mountains with their trees—a marvelously impressive picture, that seemed to belong more to heaven than earth.

📘My First Summer in The Sierra, 1911 ෆ
𓂃🖊John Muir (Scottish Author) ෆ

🖼️By the Lake Wall, 1910s ෆ
🎨Edward Cucuel (US Artist) ෆ

#bluemonday
June 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
bush-clover flowers —
they sway but do not drop
their beads of dew

🕮Issa Zenshū (Vol - II) 1810.☘︎ ݁˖
🖊️Kobayashi Issa (Japanese Poet).☘︎ ݁˖

🖼️Clover, 1934.☘︎ ݁˖
🎨Harumi Tateishi (Japanese Artist).☘︎ ݁˖

#clover
June 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
You alone will have the stars as no one else has them..In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing...only you will have stars that can laugh.

📘El Principito, 1943
𓂃🖊Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (French Writer)

🖼️Under The Stars, 1920s
🎨Longley (British Artist)

#bluemonday
June 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓢𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂

𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑒?

🕮𝑀𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝐴𝑑𝑜 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔(𝐴𝑐𝑡-𝑉, 𝑆𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒-𝐼𝐼), 1599 ღ
🖊️𝑊. 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒 (𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡) ღ

🖼️𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 1901 ღ
🎨𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑙 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑘𝑜𝑤𝑠𝑘𝑖 (𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟) ღ

#shakespearesunday
June 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓢𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑝, 𝑑𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑜'𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤?
𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑑𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑥 𝑚𝑎𝑑,

🕮𝑇𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑠(𝐴𝑐𝑡 𝐼𝐼𝐼, 𝑆𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝐼), 1590𝑠 ღ
🪶𝑊. 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒 (𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡) ღ

🖼️𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑒𝑎 𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 1879 ღ
🎨𝐼𝑣𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑧𝑜𝑣𝑠𝑘𝑦 (𝑅𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟) ღ

#ShakespeareSunday
June 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM