"There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail; there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes." ~ Leo Tolstoy Evening in Normandy (1909) 🎨 Gustave Loiseau

Magnificent 🤌🏼✨️ • David Whyte •

"Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming." ~ Matthew Arnold The Isle of Wight (1866) 🎨 John Brett

Grab a hankie, and read... • Polly Clark •

"Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul." ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett 🎨 Namikawa Sōsuke (19th century)

Words for the Weekend 🥳 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 ⭐️ 𝔸 𝔹 ℂ 𝔻 (Amazed to have reached 3k followers here! Thank you! 🙏🏻✨️)

All is well. Always will it be so. Love is eternal. Onwards now I go.

"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." ~ Anaïs Nin Open Window, Etretat (1920) 🎨 Henri Matisse

J.R.R. Tolkien giving us his thoughts on the land of Faerie 🤌🏼✨️

Lean into...

A delightful gem from... • Wendy Cope •

Give yourself a moment, and read this little excerpt from 'Anne of Avonlea' by the wonderful Lucy Maud Montgomery.

And from the shyness of Love emanates the greatest of feeling.

The clear vowels rise like balloons. • Sylvia Plath •

"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."

A word-gift from my ancestors...

Snowdrops are also known as ‘Candlemas Bells’, as they bloom around #Candlemas. This Christian celebration of light echoes the older pagan festival of #Imbolc, and is observed on 2nd February to mark the ritual purification of Mary after the birth of Jesus.

Give yourself the grace that this quote contains... “We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.” ~ William Blake

Ending Sunday with... • Siegfried Sassoon •

The magic of an Imbolc evening, sharpening and cleansing the blood; presenting us with fresh clear spaces to grow into, and to fill up with whatever we so desire.

A poem for St. Brigid's Day 🌿 (The image in the last line is simply sublime.) • Seamus Heaney •

In the Irish language, the goldfinch is known as 'lasair choille' (pronounced 'lasser-quilla'), which means... The Flame of the Forest! 🔥

What with all the brouhaha to the latest AI news story that is Moltbook, I inevitably find myself turning to some poetry. R.S. Thomas

"And suddenly you know: it's time to start something new, and trust the magic of beginnings." ~ Meister Eckhart

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

"I was thinking today of my greatest happiness: a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it." ~ Virginia Woolf, 'Letters'

Bravely read... D.H. Lawrence

"No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened." ~ C.S. Lewis 📸 of when I was younger

Pause for a moment, and read... • Kathleen Jamie •

"Beauty is mysterious, a slow presence who waits for the ready, expectant heart." ~ John O'Donohue

W.B. Yeats bought a centuries-old stone tower in 1916, and he then set about restoring it. Upon completion, there was only one thing left to do...

"... let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope." ~ George Eliot, 'Daniel Deronda' Earliest Spring (1894) 🎨 Paul Baum

'Thaw' by Edward Thomas

Read with slow sincerity... • Siegfried Sassoon •

Things be a-happening...

Post a quote from a Saint that would be 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 to folks of all creeds and dispositions 🌾 I'll start... "The important thing is not to think much, but to love much." ~ St. Teresa of Ávila

Take a moment, and read... • Sheenagh Pugh •

Only one more week of January 2026 to go. (Keep being a hero!) • Lewis Carroll •

"The moment was all; the moment was enough." ~ Virginia Woolf 🎨 Walter L. Palmer (1854–1932)

Just a little something for your Sunday... R.S. Thomas

Named after Iris, the Greek goddess associated with the rainbow, the iris has long been valued for its colours and form. These qualities inspired its use in medieval manuscripts, early herbals and botanical illustration, where colour and structure were studied. #FolkloreSunday

"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Lose yourself in... A Murmuration of Starlings 🎨 Annie Ovenden

"All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success — in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. So it is in general, and so it is in our own lives." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

A quote like this makes a chap well up, don't you know 🥹

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

Poem for #BBC #Winterwatch • Philip Larkin •

Vincent van Gogh 🖎

"You are marked out for success, and you must not fail. You have my tenderest affection and all my confidence. Ever your faithful friend..." ~ Henry James The Open Window (1907) 🎨 Carl Holsøe

Everybody needs a...