The middle classes truly believe that human beings have real existence only if they make money or help to make it 📙The Condition of the Working Class in England 1845🖊Friedrich Engels (German Philosopher) 🖼️Labourers Resting 1783s 🎨George Morland (English Painter) #labourday

With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. 📕The Black Cat, 1843 🐾 🖊️Edgar Allan Poe (US Writer) 🐾 🖼️The Black Cat (Inspired by Poe's Tell-Tale) 1986 🐾 🎨Greg Hildebrandt (New Jersey Based Artist) 🐾 #caturdayᓚᘏᗢ

I've heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, & you make yourselves another..and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures 📓Hamlet 1601 🖊️Shakespeare (English Playwright) 🖼️God's Creatures 1913 🎨Eugene de Blaas (Italian Painter) #ShakespeareSunday

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. Emily Jane Brontë — Wuthering Heights

As usual, cats and children noticed him first. 📔The Last Wish, 1993 ≽ܫ≼ 🖊️Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish Writer) ≽ܫ≼ 🖼️Cat and Children, 1830s ≽ܫ≼ 🎨Daniel Maclise (Irish Painter) ≽ܫ≼ #caturdayᓚᘏᗢ

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. 📘Leaves of Grass, 1855 ☼ ✍️Walt Whitman (US Poet) ☼ 🖼️Women on The Beach, 1913 ☼ 🎨Gerda Wegener (Danish Illustrator) ☼ #whitman

Perhaps every youth needs an occasional wilderness trip, in order to learn the meaning of this particular freedom. 📘A Sand County Almanac: With other essays, 1966 🖊️Aldo Leopold (US Writer) 🖼️Cannoe Ride, 1930s 🎨Raoul du Gardier (French Painter) #BlueMonday

...the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the moon, The creeping cat, looked up. 📕The Cat And the Moon, 1924🐈‍⬛ 🖊️William Butler Yeats (Irish Poet)🐈‍⬛ 🖼️Red Sky At Night, 2025🐈‍⬛ 🎨Maggie Vandewalle (Iowa Based Artist)🐈‍⬛ ᓚᘏᗢ

“Think when we talk of horses, that you see them/ Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth”🐎 #Shakespeare’s Chorus #HenryV 🎨Studies of Horses🤍 #KatsushikaHokusai

..sleep cat of the night, with episcopal ceremony..take care of all our dreams; control the obscurity of our slumbering prowess with your relentless heart and the great ruff of your tail 📔Cat's Dream 1966 🖊️P. Neruda (Chilean Poet) 🖼️Cat Asleep 1870s 🎨A. Lançon (French Artist)

“Come now, a roundel & a fairy song…Sing me now asleep. Then to your offices & let me rest”💤 #Shakespeare’s Titania🧚‍♀️ 🎨Come now a roundel and a fairy song by #RosalindLyons🤍

Midwinter in the realm. Chivalrous to the end is my elven King, to light the way on this aphotic eve. In our mind, the enemy~darkness, defeated. Look out your window when you hear them: sleigh bells ringing in the night #vss365 #FoxProse #fairytalepoets Fairytale Poets ✨ 🎨on image

Once~ 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 Our passion kindled Now the fire cleanses No consolation needed #MistletoeMadness25 #FoxProse #vss365 #WinterWhimsy

OTD - 19/12/1843 - 'A Christmas Carol' was published by Chapman & Hall. The initial print run of 6,000 sold out in days.

"The mystery of Christmas is in a manner identical with the mystery of Dickens. If ever we adequately explain the one we may adequately explain the other." ~G.K. Chesterton

“Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?”! #Shakespeare’s Malvolio🤨#TwelfthNight🤍✨ 🎨Twelfth Night Revels in the Great Hall, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎉🍻 by Joseph Nash 1838

The cat and I Burn wormwood together In my quiet house. 📔Oraga Haru, 1819 🖊️Kobayashi Issa (Japanese Poet) 🖼️Lady at Window with Two Cats, 18th century 🎨Zhang Zhen (Chinese Artist) #caturday