“It beckons, I follow.
Good-by to the light,
I am going, O whither?
Out into the night.”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) American poet
The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Attributed
“It beckons, I follow.
Good-by to the light,
I am going, O whither?
Out into the night.”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) American poet
The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
Note about his Memoirs about a week before he died, as quoted in Famous Last Words (2001) by Alan Bisbort, p. 30.
1880s
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
“I am not ready. But when will we ever be ready?”
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Inheritance (2011)
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter
Cahiers du Cinema (1960)
Context: I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let me thoughts wander freely.
Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer
Source: The Year of Secret Assignments
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) American actress
Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 33, “Khatovar: Leave-taking” (p. 488)