Thomas Buchanan Read

Thomas Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872), was an American poet and portrait painter.

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    Hurrah! Hurrah for Sheridan!
    Hurrah! Hurrah for horse and man!
    —Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872)

    To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Hurrah! Hurrah for Sheridan!
    Hurrah! Hurrah for horse and man!
    —Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872)

    I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives, we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find—I do not know—the Pensées by Pascal!
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)