“Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
Source: The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
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Edna St. Vincent Millay 69
American poet 1892–1950Related quotes
VIII. 329–331 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree…”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
" My own heart let me have more have pity on http://www.bartleby.com/122/47.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.”
Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places
“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”
“It is His Majesty's heart's desire to see the swift termination of the war.”
Regarding the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in a ZNet forum reply (13 July 1999) http://forum.zmag.org/~ZNetCmt/read?3235,7
Context: To put it briefly: the evidence is quite overwhelming on this matter. The Japanese had sent an envoy (Ambassador Sato) to Moscow (still officially a neutral) to work out a negotiated surrender. An instruction from Foreign Minister Togo came in a telegram (intercepted by American intelligence, which had broken the Japanese code early in the war), saying: "Unconditional surrender is the only obstacle to peace... It is His Majesty's heart's desire to see the swift termination of the war." The Japanese had one condition for surrender which the U. S. refused to meet — recognizing the sanctity of the Emperor. It seemed the U. S. was determined to drop the bomb before the Japanese could surrender — for a variety of reasons, none of them humanitarian. After the war, the official report of the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey, based on hundreds of interviews with Japanese decision-makers right after the war, concluded that the war would have ended in a few months by a Japanese surrender "even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."