Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems
Stolen Waters (1862)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
“Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.
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E invecchiando intristisce.
Act II, scene ii.
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With no outward sign—
Is the flower
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It withers in the world,
This flower-like human heart.”
Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
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after 1930
James Joyce book The Dead
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"
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