“Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.”
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
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Acrisius, fragment 59.
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“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"Sunday Morning"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or an old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Context: We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or an old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Deer walk upon our mountains, and quail
Whistle about us their spontaneous cries;
Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness;
And, in the isolation of the sky,
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
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Myles Rudge (1926–2007) English songwriter and scriptwriter
Song A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
“[...] live hard not soft; eat hard not soft; seek fiber in foods and in life.”
Helen Nearing (1904–1995) American writer
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“Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.”
T.S. Eliot book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Deuteronomy
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Context: Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
Thomas Malory book Le Morte d'Arthur
Book XVIII, ch. 25
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)