“4522. The Fly, that playeth too long in the Candle, singeth her Wings at last.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Crippled God (2011)
“4522. The Fly, that playeth too long in the Candle, singeth her Wings at last.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Muse II http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/muse-ii/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
"A death-bed Adieu from Th. J. to M. R." Jefferson's poem to his eldest child, Martha "Patsy" Randolph, written during his last illness in 1826. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/prespoetry/tj.html Two days before his death, Jefferson told Martha that in a certain drawer in an old pocket book she would find something intended for her. https://books.google.com/books?id=1F3fPa1LWVQC&pg=PA429&dq=%22in+a+certain+drawer+in+an+old+pocket+book%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NDa2VJX_OYOeNtCpg8gM&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%20a%20certain%20drawer%20in%20an%20old%20pocket%20book%22&f=false The "two seraphs" refer to Jefferson's deceased wife and younger daughter. His wife, Martha (nicknamed "Patty"), died in 1782; his daughter Mary (nicknamed "Polly" and also "Maria," died in 1804 <br class="br">1820s
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Rabia Basri Muslim saint and Sufi mystic
as quoted in Early Islamic Mysticism (New York: Paulist Press: 1996), p. 165
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)
“I hope my journey to death lasts at least ninety years.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)