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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:05:31 -0800

Sunday
Nov., 8
2009

On this day in 1912, George Bernard Shaw wrote the following letter to English actress Stella Campbell:

Stella, Stella
Shut your ears tight against this blarneying Irish liar and actor. Read no more of his letters. He will fill his fountain pen with your heart's blood, and sell your most sacred emotions on the stage. He is treacherous as only an Irishman can be: he adores you with one eye and sees you with the other as a calculated utility. He has been recklessly trying to please you, to delight you, to persuade you to carry him up to heaven for a moment (he is trying to do it now); and when you have done it, he will run away and give it all to the mob. Oh dont, dont, DONT fall in love with him; but dont grudge him the joy he finds in being in love with you, and writing all sorts of wild but heartfelt exquisite lies - lies, lies, lies, lies - to you, his adoredest.
G.B.S.

In 1914, Stella Campbell played the role of Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's play Pygmalion when it made its London debut. He'd written the play several years earlier for her, specifically , but the London production was held up due to injuries she sustained in a car accident. So Pygmalion first opened in Vienna in 1913, in a German version that Shaw translated himself. When Campbell played Eliza Doolittle on opening night in London, she was 49 years old.

The correspondence between Stella (Mrs. Patrick Campbell) and Shaw lasted for 40 years, from 1899 to 1939.

Bernard Shaw and Stella

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:35:19 -0800

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kubler

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:58:38 -0700

Easy Poet Costume Ideas
Whether you're heading to a party with a literary theme or simply trying to impress an English
teacher this Halloween, here are a few inexpensive costume ideas worth trying on.

Sappho

Called "the tenth Muse" by Plato, Sappho either invented
or refined the meter of her day, now known as "Sapphic" meter.

You Will Need
A toga
A lyre

Extra Credit
Recite fragments of poems from memory, as in ancient times: "I feel that / death has
come near me."

[Like the very gods]
by Sappho
Edited by Richard Lattimore

Like the very gods in my sight is he who
sits where he can look in your eyes, who listens
close to you, to hear the soft voice, its sweetness
murmur in love and

laughter, all for him. But it breaks my spirit;
underneath my breast all the heart is shaken.
Let me only glance where you are, the voice dies,
I can say nothing,

but my lips are stricken to silence, under-
neath my skin the tenuous flame suffuses;
nothing shows in front of my eyes, my ears are
muted in thunder.

And the sweat breaks running upon me, fever
Shakes my body, paler I turn than grass is;
I can feel that I have been changed, I feel that
death has come near me.

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:41:58 -0700

"Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods."

Quote by:

Robert G. Ingersoll
(1833-1899) American political leader, orator
Source:

Orthodoxy (1884)

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:22:34 -0700

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

Julia Roberts

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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:11:02 -0700

"I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life."

D.H. Lawrence

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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:54:50 -0700

The � Friend � Who � Stands � By

When troubles come your soul to try
You love the friend who just stands by.
Perhaps there's nothing he or she can do
The thing is strictly up to you.
For there are troubles all your own
And paths the soul must tread alone.
Times when love can't smooth the road
Nor friendship lift the heavy load.
But just to feel you have a friend
Who will stand by until the end.
Whose sympathy through all endures
Whose warm handclasp is always yours.
It helps somehow to pull you through
Although there's nothing he or she can do.
And so with fervent heart we cry...
God Bless the friend who just stands by.

B.Y.Williams

♫ � ♫ � ♫

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Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:11:38 -0700

About Marriage

Today's
Dialogue Question

Falling Stars

When was the last time we sat and watched falling stars together? How does my answer make me feel?

Today's
Marriage Quote
Amy Bloom:

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

from

Sheri & Bob Stritof

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Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:23:42 -0700

About Marriage

Today's
Dialogue Question

Planning For Our Future

� � � How do I feel
about planning for our future?

Today's
Marriage Quote
Matthew Broderick

� � � "We love each other and let the other person be themselves, We don't try to convince the other to be something that they're not."

from

Sheri & Bob Stritof

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Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:12:34 -0700

Keat's letters to Fanny Brawne are among the most famous love letters ever written.As next door neighbours they exchaned numerous short notes, and occasionally more passionate ones(from the letter)

My sweet Fanny, will your heart never change? My love, will it? I have no limit now to my love - You note came in just here - I cannot be happier away from you - 'T is richer than an Argosy of Pearles. Do not threat me even in jest. I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist: and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often "to reason against the reasons of my Love." I can do that no more - the pain would be too great - My Love is selfish - I cannot breathe without you.

Yours for ever
John Keats