“Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung!”
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
"Lenore", st. 1 (1831).
“Funeral March for the Last Rites of a Deaf Man.”
Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd. <br class="br">A piece consisting of 24 empty bars. See the score in this essay by Larry J Solomon on John Cage http://solomonsmusic.net/4min33se.htm.
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French writer and humourist 1854–1905Related quotes
“Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living, through the mouths of men.”
Nemo me lacrumis decoret neque funera fletu
faxit. Cur? volito vivos per ora virum.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Voices of the Night
St. 4.
Cf. Andrew Marvell, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649): "Art indeed is long, but life is short".
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night
“A man's character is formed by the Odes, developed by the Rites and perfected by music.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Quoted from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter VIII
“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek
Source: Zorba the Greek
Albert Camus book Reflections on the Guillotine
Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
Context: When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.