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Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 2004.
Ted Hughes was an English poet and children's writer.
Birthday Letters was first published in 1998.
The 2003 film Sylvia tells the story of Ted Hughes' relationship with the American poet Sylvia Plath.
"It was a visit from the goddess, the beauty
Who was poetry's sister - she had come
To tell poetry she was spoiling us.
Poetry listened, maybe, but we heard nothing
And poetry did not tell us. And we
Only did what poetry told us to do."
The Poems of John Keats - John Keats
This picture was taken in Mont Royal, Montreal 2009.
John Keats was an English poet. His first volume of poems was published in 1817.
The 2009 film Bright Star, written and directed by Jane Campion, is based on the last years of Keats' life.
"BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art -
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors -
No - yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever - or else swoon to death."
Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind
This picture was taken in Barneys New York, NYC 2009. The dress is from Mary Katrantzou.
Patrick Süskind is a German writer. Das Parfum (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) was first published in German in 1985.
The novel was adapted to cinema in 2006, and it was directed by Tom Tykwer.
"The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces.The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice as did his master’s wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the king himself stank, stank like a rank lion, and the queen like an old goat, summer and winter."
Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
