“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”
Source: Tears of the Moon
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Nora Roberts124
American romance writer 1950Related quotes
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Born in Fire
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”
Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist
“Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest…”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Aurora Leigh
Source: Aurora Leigh
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
On his work, in an interview in The New York Herald Tribune (18 January 1932)
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Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Campo dei Fiori" (1943), trans. Louis Iribarne and David Brooks
Rescue (1945)
Context: Those dying here, the lonely
Forgotten by the world,
Our tongue becomes for them
The language of an ancient planet.
Until, when all is legend
And many years have passed,
On a great Campo di Fiori
Rage will kindle at a poet's word.
Charles de Lint (1951) author
Part One: The Hidden People, "The Quarrlsome Piper" p. 19
The Little Country (1991)
