Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Old Boreal Owl prayer, Grimble's last words; Chapter Twenty-two: "The Shape of the Wind", p. 162
The Capture (2003)
“"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88
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Bernard of Clairvaux24
French abbot, theologian 1090–1153Related quotes
“Is it for this purpose that we are strong—that we may have light burdens to bear?”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) English churchman, Dean of Westminster
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 98.
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Oh that I had Wings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“His bow, a light burden for glad shoulders, the boy Hylas bears.”
Tela puer facilesque umeris gaudentibus arcus
gestat Hylas.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book I, Lines 109–110
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi
Context: Men have gone towards each other because of that ray of light which each of them contains; and light resembles light. It reveals that the isolated man, too free in the open expanses, is doomed to adversity as if he were a captive, in spite of appearances; and that men must come together that they may be stronger, that they may be more peaceful, and even that they may be able to live.
For men are made to live their life in its depth, and also in all its length. Stronger than the elements and keener than all terrors are the hunger to last long, the passion to possess one's days to the very end and to make the best of them. It is not only a right; it is a virtue.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,
Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;
Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,
J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.
Book I (1668), Dedication "To Monseigneur the Dauphin".
Fables (1668–1679)
