
“Songs of liberation echo from the dust.”
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
“Songs of liberation echo from the dust.”
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
“Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters, from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?”
Temora, Book VI, p. 353
The Poems of Ossian
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Context: The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.
"Autopsy of a Turvy World"
Autopsy of a Turvy World (2008)
“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
Adagia (first published 1500, with numerous expanded editions through 1536), III, IV, 96
Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).
(3rd March 1827) Birthday in Spring
The London Literary Gazette, 1827