“My pen in this, my sword in that hand hold.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Numa mão sempre a espada, e noutra a pena.
Stanza 79, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VII
“I ’ll make thee glorious by my pen,
And famous by my sword.”
My Dear and only Love. Compare: "I ’ll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword", Sir Walter Scott, Legend of Montrose, chap. xv.
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E 76
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
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Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause.<p>Uniting to fight the foes we face, anger, resentment and hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness. With unity, we can do great things, important things.
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Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician
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John Oldham (poet) (1653–1683) English satirical poet and translator
Satire upon a Printer, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
"Poem"
The Speed of Darkness (1968)
Context: Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women,
Brave, setting up signals across vast distances,
considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.