
Variant: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
St. 41.
Compare: "Once in a golden hour / I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed", Alfred Tennyson, The Flower.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
Variant: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
We know how to tell many lies that pass for truth, and we know, when we wish, to tell the truth itself.
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), lines 27–28. Variant translations:
"Lonestar", Come Away with Me (2002)
Song lyrics
“When you're an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air.”
As quoted in "Lost Highway" interview by Mikal Gilmore in Rolling Stone magazine (6 March 1997) http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhrs1.html
Context: When you're an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air. You just feel it. It's not like you're sitting down, thinking, "What can I do to really mess things up?" You're getting ideas, and then the ideas feed into a story, and the story takes shape. And if you're honest about it and you're thinking about characters and what they do, you now see that your ideas are about trouble. You're feeling more depth, and you're describing something that is going on in some way.
“I'm gonna pick up the pieces,
and build a Lego house.
When things go wrong we can knock it down.”
Song lyrics, + (2011)
Stig Toft Madsen, et al, in: "Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia}, P.80