Actually from Goethe's Torquato Tasso, Act IV, scene iv, line 63. In the original German:
Ein Tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte:
Man muss geschäftig sein, sobald sie reift.
Misattributed
Alphonse Daudet book Letters From My Windmill
Voyez-vous, mes enfants, quand le blé est mûr, il faut le couper; quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire.
Lettres de mon moulin (1869; repr. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882) p. 112; John P. Macgregor (trans.) Letters from My Mill (New York: Taplinger, 1967) p. 86.
“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”
Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
“To man no suffering unexpected comes;
We hold our fortune but from day to day.”
Diphilus Athenian poet of New Comedy
Fragment 3
Fabulae Incertae
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 82.
Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician
Praying for You Can Run But You Can't Hide ministry in 2006
Bachmann Predicted The World Would End In 2006: ‘We Are In The Last Days’
Marie
Diamond
2011-07-18
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/18/264811/bachmann-predicted-world-end-2006/
2011-07-18
2010s
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"Credences of Summer"
Collected Poems (1954)
Context: One of the limits of reality
Presents itself in Oley when the hay,
Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is
A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.…
Things stop in that direction and since they stop
The direction stops and we accept what is
As good. The utmost must be good and is…
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
Paul Robeson
Context: That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice
forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge
and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words
devout and large,
that we are each other's
harvest:
we are each other's
business:
we are each other's
magnitude and bond.
“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
Book I, 1
Histories (100-110)
“Call no day fortunate till it be ended.”
Nulla dies felix
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) English writer and publisher
The Fifth Queen Crowned
