Eye of the soul

And we have snow. It's not much, but the air smells of cold. You can feel the Christmas spirit. I can't wait to bake gingerbread cookies and decorate our tiny Xmas tree.

bookoasis:

How well I know what I mean to do
When the long dark Autumn evenings come,
And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue?
With the music of all thy voices, dumb
In life’s November too!

I shall be found by the fire, suppose,
O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age,
While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows,
And I turn the page, and I turn the page,
Not verse now, only prose!

  —  Robert Browning, from “By the Fireside

Image by Sophie

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wordpainting:

I’ve had this problem before. Too many great stories to choose from and frozen by indecision.

teachingliteracy:

harry potter.

 by Nouf abdullah alrabiah

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

John Gardner (via readingandriting)

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wanderlusttt:

favorite poem

bookoasis:

(by aoifedoyle)

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prettybooks:

(by Jared Krause)

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teachingliteracy:

By mary without sound