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"Walk on air against your better judgement." ~ Seamus Heaney Summer Evening • Rosses Point 🎨 Jack B. Yeats (1922)

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Feeling absolutely...

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Prepare to smile... "It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A.B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't." ~ P. G. Wodehouse 🎨 Rosa Bonheur

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... and into The Week we go! "I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." ~ Étienne de Grellet 🎨 Georges Seurat

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Rounding off the Weekend with... • Sara Teasdale •

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1️⃣ "The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have." ~ Henry James 2️⃣ "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." ~ C.S. Lewis Standing on the Balcony 🎨 Carl Holsøe

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For me, being Irish has a lot to do with heroically aligning myself with what this word whispers. 🌊🌿🌳✨️

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"Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source." ~ Leo Tolstoy The Church at Varengeville 🎨 Claude Monet (1882)

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D.H. Lawrence — my soul is a dark forest.

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A famous poem from A.E. Housman that really resonated with my Grandad (a native of Carriganima) when I read it aloud to him. 🥹

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"Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible." ~ Charles Dickens The Forest Meadow (1876) 🎨 Hans Thoma

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Poem of the Day ⛵️ • John Masefield •

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I'm beginning to understand the Romans...

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This always gets me. • Patrick Kavanagh •

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Words for the Weekend 🥳 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D (Follow for more)

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"Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end." ~ David Niven

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Never underestimate the power of saying to yourself...

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"Remember, when you leave this Earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received—only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage." ~ St. Francis of Assisi

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Adlestrop. Possibly the only poem you need for the rest of June. Read it slowly, and let it linger... • Edward Thomas •

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We're all just passing through.

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"Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much Eternity you contain within you." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Cliffs on the Coast Near Pourville 🎨 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1879)

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Emily Dickinson 🌦

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"But how could you live and have no story to tell?" ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky A Walk at Twilight (1890) 🎨 Vincent van Gogh

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" ... that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson Coastal Sunset 🎨 Frederick Judd Waugh

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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver 🖎

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New Week, Cool Words 😎 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D (Follow for more)

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There's splendour in the grass... An Incident • William Stafford

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"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: ... they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence." ~ George Eliot, 'Adam Bede' Rhyl Sands (1836) 🎨 David Cox

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Your Sunday Poem 🌿🌳🙏🏻🌳🌿 "To come in among these trees you must leave behind the six days' world, all of it, all of its plans and hopes." • Wendell Berry •

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"Seaward, ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 📸 Rowing in the Bluebird with Mum and Captain Rua earlier ❤️ #HappyMoments

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Two very similar pieces, but which one is your favourite? 🤔 (25 or 178) • Lord Byron •

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"Renew’d in endless notes of glee, So thirsty of his voice is he, For all to hear and all to know That he is joy, awake, aglow, The tumult of the heart to hear Through pureness filter’d crystal-clear..." ~ George Meredith Song of the Lark (1876) 🎨 Winslow Homer

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Words for the Weekend 🥳 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D

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😴 A peaceful sleep I wish for thee Where cares and worries Cease to be. 🎨 Abbott Handerson Thayer

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Stop a while, and read... • Rudyard Kipling •

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"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." ~ Henry David Thoreau Out in the Backwoods (1920) 🎨 Arkady Rylov

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A magical word...

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A poem by Wendell Berry.

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Utterly exquisite. • Siegfried Sassoon •

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"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had." ~ Gabriel García Márquez

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"Such a good fellow, too," remarked the Otter reflectively; "but no stability — especially in a boat!" #TheWindInTheWillows

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“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.” ~ Washington Irving The Peaceful Forest Creek (1890) 🎨 Grigoriy Myasoyedov

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Say it aloud and smile 🙂

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Pause for a moment, and read... 𝗜 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗕𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗧 by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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"There is no force in the world but Love; and when you carry it within you, if you simply have it, even if you remain baffled as to how to use it, it will work its radiant effects and help you out of and beyond yourself. One must never lose this belief." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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... and into The Week we go! Mary Oliver 🖎

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