“And you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover”
Leonard Cohen book The Spice-Box of Earth
"Song", The Spice-Box of Earth (1961)
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Song lyrics, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)
“And you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover”
Leonard Cohen book The Spice-Box of Earth
"Song", The Spice-Box of Earth (1961)
“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Barbara Frietchie (1863); reported in Diane Ravitch, The American Reader: words that moved a nation (2000), p. 259. The lines are based on an folkloric account of the real Barbara Fritchie, said to have made a similar challenge to Confederate invaders of Maryland during the American Civil War.
“What a strange world you must live in, inside your head.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Aftermaths (p. 252)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
Ruben Vergara Meersohn (1991) Entrepreneur
Keynote speech at the Career Days https://fosmedia.me/infos/drustvo/otvoreni-dani-karijere, 29 March 2018.
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
Introduction to "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
Frank Loesser (1910–1969) American songwriter
Song On a Slow Boat to China.
“You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 94
Context: You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.