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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
"Play up! play up! and play the game!" [10] The very short "A Cricket Poem" by Harold Pinter encapsulates the mood and nostalgia common to lovers of cricket: I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time. [11] Andrew Lang's cricketing parody of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Brahma" is memorable: If the wild bowler thinks he bowls,
In an attempt to win her heart, Mars asks the god of sport to create a gift for Caissa. The god creates the game of chess; A Game of Chess, a section in The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot; The Game of Chess included in Dreamtigers (1960), a poem (two sonnets) by Jorge Luis Borges "White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves."
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In Bruce Dawe's popular poem "Life Cycle" (1967), the passion Victorians have for football is portrayed, in a gently humorous tone, as a form of religious worship. [3] Dawe describes the transcendent qualities of football in "The High Mark". The poem ends with a footballer falling "back to Earth"—a "guernseyed Icarus". [8]
Motivational posters can have behavioral effects. For example, Mutrie and Blamey, [4] of the University of Glasgow and the Greater Glasgow Health Board, found in one study that their placement of a motivational poster that promotes stair use in front of an escalator and a parallel staircase, in an underground station, doubled the amount of stair use.
Short Christmas movie quotes “Seeing isn’t believing; believing is seeing.” — Charlie, “The Santa Claus 2" "But sir, Christmas is a time for giving ... a time to be with one’s family.”