“Blue Moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.”
Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) lyricist
"Blue Moon" (1934)
"Blue Moon" (1934)
“Blue Moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.”
Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) lyricist
"Blue Moon" (1934)
Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter
Last Call
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
Penny Lover, co-written with Brenda Harvey Richie.
Song lyrics, Can't Slow Down (1983)
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Four, Pappin
Context: I am a free man-and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion. I need sunshine and paving tones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me. Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to anyone, I would've responsible to God alone-if he exited!
Johann Gottlieb Fichte book The Vocation of Man
Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 60
The Vocation of Man (1800), Knowledge
“By far the worst pain
Is not to understand
Why without love or hate
My heart's full of pain.”
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet
C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 13, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 71