“Who could have foretold
the heart grows old
from touching others”

— Leonard Cohen, book The Energy of Slaves

Source: The Energy of Slaves

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Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016

Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) Italian writer

De' Magistrati, p. 127.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 430.

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

Philip Reeve (1966) English children's writer and illustrator

“Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.”

Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist

Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/ <br class="br">1876 - 1895

“I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies.”

Mandy Patinkin (1952) American actor and tenor singer

Oregon Daily Emerald, "Mandy Patinkin to show his many faces at Hult" http://www.dailyemerald.com/archive/v100/3/990423/mandy.html

“The devils stroll the earth again and infect with the red sickness. They must, at all cost to themselves, destroy the growing tendrils before such can touch the other side. For, whenever one least growing creeper touches across the interval, that means the extinction of a devil.”

R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer

Source: The Flame is Green (1971), Ch. 9 : Oh, The Steep Roofs of Paris
Context: The devils stroll the earth again and infect with the red sickness. They must, at all cost to themselves, destroy the growing tendrils before such can touch the other side. For, whenever one least growing creeper touches across the interval, that means the extinction of a devil. It is a thing to be tested. Notice it that whenever there is the special shrilling, when there is the wild flinging out of catchwords to catch you in, when there are the weird exceptions and inclusions, when there are specious arguments and the murderous defamations, when all the volubility of the voltairians and the cuteness of the queers has been assembled to confound you, then one green growth has almost reached across to the other side, one devil is in danger of extinction. Oh, they will defend against that!