“For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
Source: Sonny's Blues
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James Baldwin163
(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987Related quotes
“How easy it is to tell tales!”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Jacques le Fataliste (1796)
“I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto II, stanza 22.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 15
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Those evening Bells.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
David Brin book The Postman
Source: The Postman (1985), Section 3, “Cincinnatus”, Chapter 18 (p. 298)
“How shall we venture home?
How shall we tell each other of the poet?”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
"The Gates"
The Gates (1976)
Context: How shall we venture home?
How shall we tell each other of the poet?
How can we meet the judgment on the poet,
or his execution? How shall we free him? How shall we speak to the infant beginning to run?
All those beginning to run?
