R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet
"Children’s Song"
Song at the Year's Turning (1955)
Under der linden<br>an der heide,<br>dâ unser zweier bette was,<br>dâ mugt ir vinden<br>schône beide<br>gebrochen bluomen unde gras. <br class="br">"Under der linden", line 1; translation by Raymond Oliver. http://colecizj.easyvserver.com/pgvogund.htm
R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet
"Children’s Song"
Song at the Year's Turning (1955)
Virginia Woolf book The Waves
Source: The Waves (1931), pp. 39-40
Context: Here on this ring of grass we have sat together, bound by the tremendous power of some inner compulsion. The trees wave, the clouds pass. The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared. We shall not always give out a sound like a beaten gong as one sensation strikes and then another. Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens.
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) Joyce Brothers
As quoted in Say It Right : A Guide To Effective Oral Business Presentations (1994) by Garth A. Hanson, Kaye T. Hanson and Ted D. Stoddard
“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) Chilean author
La literatura es un vasto bosque y las obras maestras son los lagos, los árboles inmensos o extrañísimos, las elocuentes flores preciosas o las escondidas grutas, pero un bosque también está compuesto por árboles comunes y corrientes, por yerbazales, por charcos, por plantas parásitas, por hongos y por florecillas silvestres.
2666: A Novel (2008)
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) United States writer
Our Suburb http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/3075.html