Minnie Evans (1892–1987) American artist
Cited in Allie Light, Irving Saraf (1983), "The Angel That Stands By Me"
Vogue (May 1984)
Minnie Evans (1892–1987) American artist
Cited in Allie Light, Irving Saraf (1983), "The Angel That Stands By Me"
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Last Song of Corinne
Translations, From the French
Jackson Browne (1948) American singer-songwriter
Take It Easy (co-written with Glenn Frey, 1971-1972), from For Everyman; previously recorded on The Eagles' album Eagles (1972)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Grown Old in Love
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
Lana Turner (1921–1995) American actress
On the aftermath of her suicide attempt, p. 160.
Autobiography
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Context: Although it is unfitting for someone like me to say this, in dying it is my hope not to become a Buddha. Rather, my will is permeated with the resolution to help manage the affairs of the province, though I be reborn as a Nabeshima samurai seven times. One needs neither vitality nor talent. In a word, it is a matter of having the will to shoulder the clan by oneself.
“My God, my God, have mercy on me, and on my poor people!”
William the Silent (1533–1584) stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the Dutch Revolt
Last words, as quoted in De Vader des Vaderlands (1941) by W. Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, p. 29
Variants:
O my God, have mercy on this poor people.
My God, have pity on my soul; my God, have pity on this poor people.
My God, have mercy on my soul and on these poor people.
My God, have pity on my soul; I am badly wounded. My God, have pity on my soul and on this poor people!