“The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.”
Chanson without Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 08
“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)
“Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.”
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet
XIX, p. 21
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
“And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.”
Philip Sidney (1554–1586) English diplomat
Sidney, Sonnet. Leave me, O Love. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
