The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ch. 3 - Lucy Ashton's Song.
“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”
“The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”
Stanza 13.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.”
See also: "Live or die, sink or swim" (George Peele, Edward I, c. 1584)
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 133
“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967)
Lyrics
Variant: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
Context: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me. Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
“The eye in his hand winked at him dourly. Eye was a tough old gump, not given to easy enthusiasms.”
Comments on Roadstrum speaking to the pickled eye he carries in his pocket, in Ch. 8
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: The eye in his hand winked at him dourly. Eye was a tough old gump, not given to easy enthusiasms. Roadstrum put it back in his pocket and once more contemplated his good fortune.
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”
Stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/strayreflections/index.htm
“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.”
page 323
Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)
