Bk. I, Requiem (the final sentence was used on Stevenson's Gravestone).
Underwoods (1887)
Context: Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
“Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 7, “The Torvil Anfract” (p. 70)
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.”
An American Prayer (1978)
“Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down.”
In response to the question "Why do you call yourself anti-art?," Bard College, 2005
Hyoi, p. 73 <!-- 1965 edition -->
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Context: A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmān, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. The séroni could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then–that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it.
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”
Source: The Lost Duke of Wyndham
