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Joanne Van Leerdam
Goodreads Author
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in Australia
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Tennyson, Whitman, Bronte, Poe, Dickinson, Paterson, Lawson.
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December 2009
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https://www.goodreads.com/joannevanleerdam
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18: An Expression of Grief
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm’d,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:But thy eternal summer shall not […]
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“Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen.”
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“As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too.”
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“Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.”
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