“The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
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“First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill.”
Phoebus with Admetus st. 3.
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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909Related quotes
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“Of love that never found his earthly close,
What sequel?”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
" Love and Duty http://www.readbookonline.net/read/4310/14259/", l. 1- 21 (1842) <br class="br">Context: Of love that never found his earthly close,<br>What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts?<br>Or all the same as if he had not been?<br>Not so. Shall Error in the round of time<br>Still father Truth? O shall the braggart shout<br>For some blind glimpse of freedom work itself<br>Thro' madness, hated by the wise, to law<br>System and empire? Sin itself be found<br>The cloudy porch oft opening on the Sun?<br>And only he, this wonder, dead, become<br>Mere highway dust? or year by year alone<br>Sit brooding in the ruins of a life,<br>Nightmare of youth, the spectre of himself!<br>If this were thus, if this, indeed, were all,<br>Better the narrow brain, the stony heart,<br>The staring eye glazed o'er with sapless days,<br>The long mechanic pacings to and fro,<br>The set gray life, and apathetic end.<br>But am I not the nobler thro' thy love?<br>O three times less unworthy! likewise thou<br>Art more thro' Love, and greater than thy years.
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Source: Elegies, Lines 425-428.
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, l. 161 (1807).
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. vi
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.
Introduction
The Madman (1918)
“I'm going to be the best singer in the World, […] the best singer that ever was.”
Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American singer and film actor
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