Lucy Stone (1818–1893) American abolitionist and suffragist
A letter read by her husband, suffragist Henry Blackwell, to the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association (1893); as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4 (1902) by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
Source: As quoted in 1990, "Rudolf Nureyev, Charismatic Dancer Who Gave Fire to Ballet's Image, Dies at 54" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/arts/rudolf-nureyev-charismatic-dancer-who-gave-fire-to-ballet-s-image-dies-at-54.html (7 January 1993)
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
from Eric Maschwitz's lyrics to A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square with music by Manning Sherwin
“I would gladly wander in Paradise,
But it is far away and there is no road.”
Tao Yuanming (365–427) Chinese poet
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit, "Shadow replies"
Translated by Arthur Waley
“Somebody curse the light
And take me far away from myself”
Rufus Wainwright (1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
Bitter Tears
Song lyrics, Out of the Game (2012)
Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884) English poet and critic
Genius; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 88.
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) English playwright and poet
Act I, sc. 7.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
Variant: Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like lighting, but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
Wakens the slumbering ages.
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
“I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.”
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
Dispatch to Washington, during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (11 May 1864).
1860s
