February 2010 QuoteSnack News
I like to joke that other than my dessert fetish, I’m not hugely into Valentine’s Day. Keep me away from the cheesy commercials, mylar balloons and cheap, mass-produced, chocolate “love” tokens and nobody gets hurt. Friendly hand-made gifties and real poetry are in another class entirely.
In the next and new category, I’m gathering up a series of quotes from classic love poems, and maybe a little prose, too. To start with, I have collected Francis William Bourdillon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Donne, Paul-Marie Verlaine, and Emily Dickinson. Where there aren’t copyright issues I’ll stretch my snack-sized quote format and post some mid-sized poems whole. My goal is two a day – we’ll see!
Those who are just looking for famous quotes may be disoriented by the coming onslaught of Victorian passion. Think of them as odes to a passionate life, and bear with me – you may find some drool-worthy lines for that special Valentine’s card.
Still Loving the Goals, one Year Later
How time flies! QuoteSnack is now fourteen months old. Wasn’t I just starting up yesterday?
I wrote this last February. Still works!
- Always relate a quote to its context – this adds dimension for the reader and confirms it as the real deal.
- Creativity – this takes “dimension” further and deeper, for me: I grow.
- Share an intellectual snack – give readers something uplifting or stimulating within the space of a blog post.
- Have fun – play with the brain food.
- Get some community style interaction going – though I am your hostess and this blog’s boss, this isn’t just the Elizabeth show: it’s also about literature and culture in general.
Top Pages from January 2010
- On top of regular readers, Social Media sent over 3,000 pageviews to “Writing a memoir gave me nowhere to hide; it forced me to own up to my life,” from Adrienne Kane’s new book.
- Fans of winter like “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep” from Robert Frost’s classic poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
- Many of you were transfixed by the image shown with “Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes,” by Robert Heinlein.
- Emerson’s famous quote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” seems to be popular New Years resolution reading!
- The QuoteSnack home page got some good traffic from search engine users who have been here before. Pretty cool, huh?
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