Source: Elegies, Line 985.
“When flowing cups pass swiftly round
With no allaying Thames.”
Richard Lovelace (1617–1658) English writer and poet
To Althea: From Prison, st. 2. Compare: "A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii, Scene 1.
Lucasta (1649)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail."”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu
Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)
Edmund Sears (1810–1876) American minister
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 177.
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
"Clowns' Houses"
Clowns' Houses (1918)
Context: p>The busy chatter of the heat
Shrilled like a parakeet;
And shuddering at the noonday light
The dust lay dead and whiteAs powder on a mummy's face,
Or fawned with simian grace
Round booths with many a hard bright toy
And wooden brittle joy:The cap and bells of Time the Clown
That, jangling, whistled down
Young cherubs hidden in the guise
Of every bird that flies;And star-bright masks for youth to wear,
Lest any dream that fare
— Bright pilgrim — past our ken, should see
Hints of Reality.</p
“Bright reds – scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry – are very cheerful and youthful.”
Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer
Source: Maria Doulton "Simply brilliant: Cher Dior lights up Paris"
“And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.”
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
Stanza vi.
A Little While, a Little While (1846)
Context: Still, as I mused, the naked room,
The alien firelight died away;
And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright, unclouded day.
“A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
Source: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Notebook E, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
