“I look down from my height on nations
And they become ashes before me.”
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
"Carric", quoted in Thoreau, "Life Without Principle"
The Poems of Ossian
“My heaviness comes from the heights.”
Mi pesadez viene de los precipicios.
Voces (1943)
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“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
28 <br class="br"> Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
"You will hear thunder and remember me...", translated by D. M. Thomas
That day, in Moscow, a true prophecy,
when for the last time I say goodbye,
soaring to the heavens that I longed to see,
leaving my shadow here in the sky.
"Thunder," translated by A.S.Kline
Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) (1825–1906) English Anglican bishop, died 1906
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 370.
William Barnes (1801–1886) English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist
The Wind at the Door, from Poets of the English Language, W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950).
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 76e
“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: The Holy Terrors
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic