"De chiens, d'oyseaulx, d'armes, d'amous,"
Chascun le dit a la vollee,
"Pour une joye cent doulours."
Source: Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461), Line 622.
“The pursuit of love
is like falconry.”
Gil Vicente (1456–1536) Portuguese writer
La caza de amor
es de altanería.
Epigraph attributed to Gil Vicente by Gabriel García Márquez in Crónica de una muerte anunciada ["Chronicle of a Death Foretold"] (1981), first page.
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215
“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron
Uno amore...a lieto fin pervenuto, in una novelletta assai piccola intendo di raccontarvi.
Fifth Day, Fourth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 56. Compare Psalm 30:5 (KJV): "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
85 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915) <br class="br">Context: Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?<br>I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.<br>Open your doors and look abroad.<br>From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.<br>In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.
“I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so.”
Mary Martin (1913–1990) American actress
As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 183
Context: I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
