Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Source: Selected Poems
“Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men — the tension of that agony was over now.”
— Herman Melville, book Billy Budd, Sailor
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 24
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891Related quotes
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Letter to Fanny McCullough (23 December 1862); Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler
1860s
Context: In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)
1970s
Everett Dirksen (1896–1969) United States Army officer
Remarks in the Senate on a resolution to amend Senate Rule 22 (cloture), Congressional Record (January 11, 1967), vol. 113, p. 182
1960s
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Variant: the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
