2024-06-04 National Cognac Day
【Dawn】
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
Dawn in New York has
Four columns of mire
And a hurricane of black pigeons
Splashing in the putrid waters.
Dawn in New York groans
On enormous fire escapes
&
2024-06-03 National Leave the Office Early Day
【Hunter】
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
A tall pine forest!
Above it, four doves flying.
Four doves
&
2024-06-03 Love Conquers All Day
【Farewell】
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
If I die,
leave the balcony open.
The little boy is eating oranges.
2024-06-03 National "Thank God It's Monday" Day
【Ditty of First Desire】
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
In delicated green morning,
I will be a heart.
A heart.
2024-06-02 National Bubba Day
【 The Grave and The Rose 】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The grave said to the rose:
"With the tears that dawn sprinkles upon you
What do you make, flower of love?"
The rose said to the tomb:
"What do you make of those who
2024-06-02 National Rocky Road Day
【 If My Verses Had The Wings 】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Songs as sweet as summer brings,
To your flowery lawn should fly
If my verses had the wings—
Wings of birds that haunt the
2024-06-02 National Rotisserie Chicken Day
【 Tomorrow at Dawn 】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Tomorrow, at first dawn, when the country starts to whiten,
I will set out. You see, I know you’re waiting for me.
I will go by forest, I will go by mountain,
Away from you I can no longer remain.
I will walk with eyes fixed onto my thoughts,
With
2024-05-31 National Smile Day
【 The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man (1923) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,
One's tootings at the weddings of the soul
Occur as they occur. So bluish clouds
Occurred above the empty house and the leaves
2024-05-24 International Tiara Day
【Arrival at the Waldorf (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf.
This arrival in the wild country of the soul,
All approaches gone, being completely there,
Where the wild poem is a substitute
For the woman one loves or ought to love,
&nb
2024-05-12 Mother's Day
【Earthy Anecdote (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Every time the bucks went clattering
Over Oklahoma
A firecat bristled in the way.
Wherever they went,
They went clattering,
&
2024-05-04 World Give Day
【Stars at Tallapoosa (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The lines are straight and swift between the stars.
The night is not the cradle that they cry,
The criers, undulating the deep-oceaned phrase.
The lines are much too dark and much too sharp.
&nbs
2024-05-04 National Bird Day
【Invective Against Swans (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.
A bronze rain from the sun descending marks
The death of summer, which that ti
2024-05-04 Kentucky Derby
【The Plot Against the Giant - Third Girl (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Oh, la…le pauvre!
I shall run before him,
With a curious puffing.
He will bend his ear then.
I shall whisper
H
2024-04-27 National Prime Rib Day
【The Plot Against the Giant - Second Girl (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I shall run before him,
Arching cloths besprinkled with colors
As small as fish-eggs.
The threads
Will abash him.
—— • —— • —— R
2024-04-27 World Veterinary Day
【The Plot Against the Giant - First Girl (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
When this yokel comes maundering,
whetting his hacker,
I shall run before him,
Diffusing the civilest odors
Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.
&nbs
2024-04-27 National Tell a Story Day
【Ploughing on Sunday (1919)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The white cock's tail
Tosses in the wind.
The turkey-cock's tail
&n
2024-04-27 Independent Bookstore Day
【The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage (1919)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
But not on a shell, she starts,
Archaic, for the sea.
But on the first-found weed
She scuds the glitters,
Noiselessly, like one more wave.
2024-04-27 International Marconi Day
【 Parochial Theme (1942 )】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Long-tailed ponies go nosing the pine-lands,
Ponies of Parisians shooting on the hill.
The wind blows. In the wind, the voices
Have shapes that are not yet fully themselves,
Are sounds blown by a blower into shapes,
&nb
2024-04-27 Intl Design Day
【 The Poems of Our Climate - III (1942) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There would still remain the never-resting mind,
So that one would want to escape, come back
To what had been so long composed.
The imperfect is our paradise.
Note that,
2024-04-20 Volunteer Recognition Day
【 The Poems of Our Climate - II (1942) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Say even that this complete simplicity
Stripped one of all one's torments, concealed
The evilly compounded, vital I
And made it fresh in a world of white,
&nb
2024-04-06 Jump Over Things Day
【 The Poems of Our Climate - I (1942) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Clear water in a brilliant bowl,
Pink and white carnations. The light
In the room more like a snowy air,
Reflecti
2024-04-06 International Firewalk Day
【 The Glass of Water (1942) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That the glass would melt in heat,
That the water would freeze in cold,
Shows that this object is merely a state,
One of many, between two poles. So,
In the metaphysical, there are these poles.
Here in the centre stands the glass. Light
&nb
2024-04-06 National Handmade Day
【 To the One of Fictive Music (1922) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Sister and mother and diviner love,
And of the sisterhood of the living dead
Most near, most clear, and of the clearest bloom,
And of the fragrant mothers the most dear
And queen, and of diviner love the day
And flame and summer and sweet fi
2024-04-06 National Student-Athlete Day
【 The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad (1921) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The time of year has grown indifferent.
Mildew of summer and the deepening snow
Are both alike in the routine I know:
I am too dumbly in my being pent.
&
2024-04-06 National Siamese Cat Day
【 Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Not less because in purple I descended
The western day through what you called
The loneliest air, not less was I myself.
What was the ointment sprinkled on my beard?
What were the hymn
2024-04-06 National Pajama Day
【 The Novel (1950) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The crows are flying above the foyer of summer.
The winds batter it. The water curls. The leaves
Return to their original illusion.
The sun stands like a Spaniard as he departs,
Stepping from the foyer of summer into that
Of the past, the rodomontadean emptiness.
Mother was afraid I should freeze in the Parisian hotels.
She had heard of the fate of an Argentine writer. At ni
2024-04-06 National Tartan Day
【 The Region November (1956) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is hard to hear the north wind again,
And to watch the treetops, as they sway.
They sway, deeply and loudly, in an effort,
So much less than feeling, so much less than
2024-03-31 Easter Day
【 The Wind Shifts (1917) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a hu
2024-03-24 World Tuberculosis Day
【 Secret Man (1934) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The sounds of rain on the roof
Are like the sound of doves.
It is long since there have been doves
On any house of mine.
&nb
2024-03-10 Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday in Lent)
【 Large Red Man Reading (1950) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life,
Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them.
They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into rea
2024-03-10 Pretzel Sunday
【 Table Talk (1935) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Granted, we die for good.
Life, then, is largely a thing
Of happens to like, not should.
And that, too, granted, why
Do I happen to like red bush,
2024-03-10 National Skirt Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XII (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A blue pigeon it is, that circles the blue sky,
On sidelong wing, around and round and round.
A white pigeon it is, that flutters to the ground,
Grown tired of flight. Like a dark rabbi, I
Observed, when young, the nature of mankind,
In lordly
2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
But note the unconscionable treachery of fate,
That makes us weep, laugh, grunt and groan, and shout
Doleful heroics, pinching gestures forth
&nbs
2024-03-03 National I Want You to Be Happy Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-X (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The fops of fancy in their poems leave
Memorabilia of the mystic spouts,
Spontaneously watering their gritty soils.
I am a yeoman, as such fellows go.
2024-02-25 Farewell to the God of Plague
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IX (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In verses wild with motion, full of din,
Loudened by cries, by clashes, quick and sure
As the deadly thought of men accomplishing
Their curious fates in war, come, celebrate
2024-02-18 Thumb Appreciation Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VIII (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love,
An ancient aspect touching a new mind.
It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies.
This trivial trope reveals a way of truth.
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
2028-02-18 Pluto Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VII (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The mules that angels ride come slowly down
The blazing passes, from beyond the sun.
Descensions of their tinkling bells arrive.
These muleteers are dainty of their way.
&nbs
2024-02-18 National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VI (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
If men at forty will be painting lakes
The ephemeral blues must merge for them in one,
The basic slate, the universal hue.
There is a substance in us that prevails.
&nb
2024-02-18 World Whale Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-V (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the high west there burns a furious star.
It is for fiery boys that star was set
And for sweet-smelling virgins close to them.
The measure of the intensity of love
Is
2024-02-18 The First Sunday of Lent
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IV (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
This luscious and impeccable fruit of life
Falls, it appears, of its own weight to earth.
When you were Eve, its acrid juice was sweet,
Untasted, in its heavenly, orchard air.
An apple serves as well as any skull
&nbs
2024-02-18 National Battery Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-III (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese
Sat tittivating by their mountain pools
Or in the Yangtse studied out their beards?
I shall not play the flat historic scale.
&
2024-02-18 National Drink Wine Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-II (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A red bird flies across the golden floor.
It is a red bird that seeks out his choir
Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing.
A torrent will fall from him when he finds.
Shall I uncrumple this much-crumpled thing?
&nb
2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day
【 Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
"Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing,
Like the clashed edges of two words that kill."
&
2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day
【 Gray Room (1917) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Although you sit in a room that is gray,
Except for the silver
Of the straw-paper,
And pick
At your pale white gown;
Or lift one of the green beads
Of your necklace,
To let it fall;
Or gaze at your green fan
&n
2024-02-13 Lunar Goat Bliss Day
【 On the Manner of Addressing Clouds (1921) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,
Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,
Eliciting the still sustaining pomps
Of speech which are like music so profound
T
2024-02-10 Lunar New Year
【 Theory (1917) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I am what is around me.
Women understand this.
One is not duchess
A hundre
2024-02-07 National Girls and Women in Sports Day
【 Human Arrangement (1947) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Place-bound and time-bound in evening rain
And bound by a sound which does not change,
Except that it begins and ends,
Begins again and ends again—
&
2024-02-02 Groundhog Day
【 Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion (1947) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Oh, that this lashing wind was something more
Than the spirit of Ludwig Richter …
The rain is pouring down. It is July.
There is lightning and the thickest thunder.
It is a spectacle. Scene 10 becomes 11,
In
2024-01-28 Natl Daisy Day
【 The Beginning (1947) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
So summer comes in the end to these few stains
And the rust and rot of the door through which she went.
The house is empty. But here is where she sat
To comb her dewy hair, a touchless light,
Perplexed by its darker iridescences.
Th
2024-01-28 Global Community Engagement Day
【 Adult Epigram (1947) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The romance of the precise is not the elision
Of the tired romance of imprecision.
It is the ever-never-changing same,
An appearance of Again, the diva-dame.
—— • —— • —— • —— • ——
2024-01-26 National Big Wig Day
【 Debris of Life and Mind (1947) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There is so little that is close and warm.
It is as if we were never children.
Sit in the room. It is true in the moonlight
That it is as if we had never been young.
We ought not to be awake. It is from this
That a b
2024-01-23 National Handwriting Day
【 The Good Man Has No Shape (1947) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Through centuries he lived in poverty.
God only was his only elegance.
Then generation by generation he grew
Stronger and freer, a little better off.
He lived each life because, if it was bad,
He said a good li
2024-01-20 Take a Walk Outdoors Day
【 The Brave Man (1936) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The sun, that brave man,
Comes through boughs that lie in wait,
That brave man.
Green and gloomy eyes
In dark forms of the gr
2023-12-31 New Year's Eve
【 Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu (1936) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That would be waving and that would be crying,
Crying and shouting and meaning farewell,
Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre,
Just to stand still without moving a hand.
In a world without heaven to follow, the stops
Would be endings
2023-12-28 Holy Innocents Day
【 A Fading of the Sun (1933) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Who can think of the sun costuming clouds
When all people are shaken
Or of night endazzled, proud,
When people awaken
And cry and cry for help?
2023-12-08 National Crossword Solvers Day
【 Re-Statement of Romance (1935) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The night knows nothing of the chants of night.
It is what it is as I am what I am:
And in perceiving this I best perceive myself
And you. Only we two may interchange
Each in the
2023-12-08 Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
【 In a Bad Time (1948) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
How mad would he have to be to say, "He beheld
An order and thereafter he belonged
To it"? He beheld the order of the northern sky.
But the beggar gazes on calamity
And thereaf
2023-12-08 National Health Savings Account Day
【 Man Carrying Thing (1947) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully. Illustration:
A brune figure in winter evening resists
Identity. The thing he c
2023-12-08 National Simon Day
【 Gubbinal (1921) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That strange flower, the sun,
Is just what you say.
Have it your way.
2023-12-08 Take it in the Ear Day
【 Negation (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Hi! The creator too is blind,
Struggling toward his harmonious whole,
Rejecting intermediate parts,
Horrors and falsities and wrongs;
Incapable master of all force,
&nbs
2023-12-08 Bodhi Day
【 The Surprises of the Superhuman (1918) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The palais de justice of chambermaids
Tops the horizon with its colonnades.
If it were lost in Űbermenschlichkeit,
Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.
&
2023-12-08 Official Lost and Found Day
【 The Woman in Sunshine (1948) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is only that this warmth and movement are like
The warmth and movement of a woman.
It is not that there is any image in the air
Nor the beginning nor end of a form:
&n
2023-12-08 National Blue Collar Day
【 On the Road Home (1938) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It was when I said,
"There is no such thing as the truth,"
That the grapes seemed fatter.
The fox ran out of his hole.
&nb
2023-12-08 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
【 The Idea of Order at Key West (1934) 】
——Award of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,
Like a body wholly body, fluttering
Its empty
2023-12-08 Immaculate Conception Day
【 Another Weeping Woman (1921) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Pour the unhappiness out
From your too bitter heart,
Which grieving will not sweeten.
Poison grows in this dark.
2023-12-08 National Christmas Tree Day
【 Madame La Fleurie (1951) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end.
Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the earth and thought he lived in it.
Now, he brings all that he saw into the earth, to the waiting parent.
His crisp knowledge is devoured by her, beneath a dew.
Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon.
It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could be
2023-12-08 National Lard Day
【 The River of Rivers in Connecticut (1954) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There is a great river this side of Stygia
Before one comes to the first black cataracts
And trees that lack the intelligence of trees.
In that river, far this side of Stygia,
The m
2023-12-08 National Brownie Day
【 Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn (1954) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The rock is the gray particular of man's life,
The stone from which he rises, up - and - ho,
The step to the bleaker depths of his descents...
The rock is the stern particular of the air,
2023-11-30 National Mousse Day
【 The Poem as Icon (1954) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke int
2023-11-29 Electronic Greetings Day
【 Seventy Years Later (1954) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is an illusion that we were ever alive,
Lived in the houses of mothers, arranged ourselves
By our own motions in a freedom of air.
Regard the freedom of seventy years ago.
It is no longer air. The houses still stand,
Though they are rigi
2023-11-24 Black Friday
【 The World as Meditation (1952) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
J’ai passé trop de temps à travailler mon violon, à voyager. Mais l'exercice essentiel du compositeur—la méditation—rien ne l'a jamais suspendu en moi … Je vis un rêve permanent, qui ne s'arrête ni nuit ni jour.
——Georges Enesco
Is it Ulysses that approaches from the east,
The interminable adventurer? The trees are mended.
That winter is washed away. Someone is moving
On the horizon
2023-11-18 National Vichyssoise Day
【 The Plain Sense of Things (1952) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
&nb
2023-11-18 Apple Cider Day
【 The Irish Cliffs of Moher (1952) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Who is my father in this world, in this house,
At the spirit's base?
My father's father, his father's father, his--
Shadows like winds
Go back to a parent before thought, before speech,
2023-11-04 National Play Outside Day
【 An Old Man Asleep (1952) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The two worlds are asleep, are sleeping, now.
A dumb sense possesses them in a kind of solemnity.
The self and the earth — your thoughts, your feelings,
Your beliefs and disbeliefs, your whole peculiar plot;
The redness of your reddish ch
2023-11-04 National Chicken Lady Day
【 A Mythology Reflects Its Region (1955) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A mythology reflects its region. Here
In Connecticut, we never lived in a time
When mythology was possible - But if we had -
That raises the question of the image's truth.
&n
2023-11-04 National Bison Day
【 July Mountain (1955) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
Not in a single world,
In things said well in music,
2023-11-04 National Candy Day
【 Local Objects (1955) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
He knew that he was a spirit without a foyer
And that, in his knowledge, local objects become
More precious than the most precious objects of home:
The local objects of a world without a foyer,
Without a remembered past, a present past,
Or a present fu
2023-10-23 9th Day of the 9th Lunar Month
【 Solitaire under the Oaks (1955) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the oblivion of cards
One exists among pure principles.
Neither the cards nor the trees nor the air
Persist as facts. This is an escape
To principiu
2023-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【 Reality is an activity of the most august imagination (1954) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night,
We drove home from Cornwall to Hartford, late.
It was not a night blown at a glassworks in Vienna
Or Venice, motionless, gathering time and dust.
There was a crush of strength in a gr
2023-10-01 Chinese Natl Day
【 Two Letters—A Letter To (1954) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
She wanted a holiday
With someone to speak her dulcied native tongue,
In the shadows of a wood…
Shadows, woods…and the two of them in speech,
In a secrecy of words
&
2023-09-16 National Dance Day
【 Two Letters—A Letter From (1954) 】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Even if there had been a crescent moon
On every cloud-tip over the heavens,
Drenching the evening with crystals' light,
One would have wanted more—more—more—
Some true interior to which to return,
A home against one's self, a darkness,
&nb
2023-09-10 National Grandparents Day
【 Children Learn What They Live (1954) 】
Dorothy Law Nolte (1924-2005)
If children live with criticism,
They learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
They learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule,
They learn to be shy.
If children live with shame,
&
2023-08-30 National Toasted Marshmallow Day
16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
( “公主·勇者”號16天|6個景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023 )
【 Desiderata (1927) 】
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 9 of 9)
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
—— • —— • —— •
2023-08-29 National Sports Day
16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”號16天|6個景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)
【 Desiderata (1927) 】
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 8 of 9)
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
—— • —— • —— •
2023-08-28 National Red Wine Day
【 Desiderata (1927) 】
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 7 of 9)
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfo
2023-08-26 National Dog Day
16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”號16天|6個景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)
【 Desiderata (1927) 】
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 6 of 9)
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
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2023-08-25 National Kiss and Make-Up Day
16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”號16天|6個景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)
【 I Want to Buy Greenland - In Trump's Own Words (2019) 】
Robert Ippaso
Give me Greenland, make it mine
Let me buy it just in time,
&nb
2023-08-24 National Waffle Day
【 Greenland (2019) 】
DJT:
I want to buy Greenland.
Hey, this is fun!
I will turn the island into
State fifty-one.
&nb
2023-08-23 National Ride the Wind Day
【 You Could Never Take A Car to Greenland (2017) 】
Maggie Smith (1977-)
You could never take a car to Greenland,
my daughter says. Unless the car could float.
Unless by car you mean boat. Unless the ocean
turned to ice and promised not to crack.
&n
2023-08-22 National Folklore Day
【2 of 2 Greenland Natl Anthems: The Land of Great Length (1979)】
There is a lovely country
it stands with broad beech-trees,
near the salty eastern shore
It bends itself i
2023-08-21 World Entrepreneurs' Day
【 1 of 2 Greenland Natl Anthems: Our Country, Who's Become So Old or You Our Ancient Land (1912) 】
Henrik Lund (1875–1948)
Our country, which has become so old your head is all covered with white hair.
Always held us, your children, in your bosom and gave us the riches of your coasts.
As middle children in the family we blossomed here Kalaallit,
we want to call ourselves before your proud and honourable head.
With a burning desire to develop what you hav
2023-08-20 National Radio Day
16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”號16天|6個景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)
【 Desiderata (1927) 】
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 5 of 9)
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imagining
2023-08-19 National Aviation Day
16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”號16天|6個景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)
【 Desiderata (1927) 】
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 4 of 9)
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all ar
2023-08-18 Never Give Up Day
16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”號16天|6個景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)
【 Desiderata (1927) 】
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 3 of 9)
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
2023-08-17 National Black Cat Appreciation Day
【Fire and Ice (1920)】
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
2023-08-16 National Tell A Joke Day
【The Song of the Cities - Halifax】
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Into the mist my guardian prows put forth,
Behind the mist my virgin ramparts lie,
The Warden of the Honour of the North,
Sleepless and veiled am I!
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