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 “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”― Jonathan Safran Foer —

Now We Are Six

Title: Now We Are Six

Author: A. A. Milne

Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

    Dust Jacket Synopsis: 

    For all who are six or sixty-six, or anywhere in between, A. A. Milne wrote this collection of verses about Christopher Robin and, of course, his great friend, Winnie-the-Pooh.

    Readers will be moved by the gentle humor and playful rhythms of what have become some of the best-loved poems for children. And they will find delight and reassurance in Milne's world - an always accessible, sun-filled realm of the imagination - a world perfectly rendered in Ernest Shepard's enchanting illustrations.

    The essential book for that all-important birthday, Now We Are Six is much more than a worthy successor to When We Were Very Young. It is a classic in its own right, treasured by every new generation of readers.

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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: They exploit them." —Friedrich Nietzsche—

Sonnet 53 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 53

by William Shakespeare

What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you, but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring and foison of the year;
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.

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Always be a poet, even in prose. —Charles Baudelaire—

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. —Plutarch—

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. —Plato—