Henry van Dyke: Citations en anglais
Footpaths to Peace.
"Four Things," Poems, vol. 1 (vol. 9 of The Works of Henry Van Dyke) (1920).
Who Follow the Flag, Phi Kappa Beta Ode, Harvard University (June 30, 1910).
The White Blot
The Ruling Passion http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/rlpsn10.txt (1901)
Time Is
Undated
Source: Time Is...
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)
“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.”
Fisherman's Luck http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/fshlk10.txt, ch. 5 (1899)
Contexte: The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Variante: Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
Source: America for Me (1909), Lines 9-12.
“The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.”
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages ))
Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229.
A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words"
However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' "
Attributed
Variante: Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
“I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;
For this the month of May was made.”
Prelude
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)
Reliance http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2226.html, st. 1 (1904)
Preface
The Ruling Passion http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/rlpsn10.txt (1901)
If All the Skies.
Source: America for Me (1909), Lines 17-18.
“And so, by night, while we were all at rest,
I think the coming sped the parting guest.”
The Parting and the Coming Guest (1873).
“No amount of energy will take the place of thought.”
The Good Old Way
Joy and Power http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10395/10395-h/10395-h.htm (1903)
“What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.”
Ships and Havens, ch. 2 (1898).
Heroes of the "Titantic" (November 9, 1912).
Little Rivers
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)
The After-Echo, st. 2 (1871).
