
Letter to George Washington (31 October 1776)
Source: The Collected Poems
Letter to George Washington (31 October 1776)
“The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
Source: The War of Art (2002), p. 50
" And Death Shall Have No Dominion http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=277", st. 1 (1943)
Source: Collected Poems
“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Minute (1 June 1940) in response to the Foreign Office's suggestion that preparations should be made for the evacuation of the Royal Family and the British Government to "some part of the Overseas Empire", quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 449
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Speech at The Dalai Lama Public Talk, University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois (17 July 2011) http://www.jennifer-beals.com/media/speeches/dalailama.html.
Original: (de) Wir wollen stille sein und warten, bis ein Stern vom Himmel fällt. Siehst du, wie oben Licht an Licht sich zündet zu einem Dom! Wir sitzen im Schweigen und falten die Hände zum Gebet. Wir wollen stille sein und warten bis ein Stern vom Himmel fällt.
Source: Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”
Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Maldives
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed told Costas Christ of National Geographic, quoted on Parent Herald, "Maldives: Is The Maldives Sinking? Only 30 Years Until It Becomes Next Atlantis" http://www.parentherald.com/articles/30490/20160321/maldives-sinking-30-years-until-becomes-next-atlantis.htm, March 21, 2016.