by Beatrix Potter
Bluebeard
Art by Maurizio Quarello
There was nothing there to be seen but parties
of pleasure, hunting, fishing, dancing, mirth,
and feasting.
Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in
rallying and joking with each other.
In short, everything succeeded so well that the
youngest daughter began to think the master of the
house not to have a beard so very blue,
and that he was a mighty civil gentleman.
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Art by Nadezhda Illarionova
"To conceal you, the donkey's skin will be an admirable disguise, for when you are inside it, no one will believe that anyone so beautiful could be hidden in anything so frightful."
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Just looking at them
I grow greedy,
as if they were freshly baked loaves
waiting on their shelves
to be broken open—that one
and that—and I make my choice
in a mood of exalted luck,
browsing among them
like a cow in sweetest pasture.
.
For life is continuous
as long as they wait
to be read—these inked paths
opening into the future, page
after page, every book
its own receding horizon.
And I hold them, one in each hand,
a curious ballast weighting me
here to the earth.
by Linda Pastan, Carnival Evening
Photo: Flourish & Blotts,
the bookstore in the Harry Potter series.
Norway, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria,
Germany, Greece: Pipes, cases,
and smoker’s accessories.
From Geschichte des Kostüms
(The costume history) vol. 5,
by Auguste Racinet, Berlin, 1888.
(Source: archive.org)
There is a garden in every childhood,
an enchanted place where colors are brighter,
the air softer, and the morning more
fragrant than ever again.
~Elizabeth Lawrence
Art by Margaret Dean
