“April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tears!”
William Watson (poet) (1858–1935) English poet, born 1858
April http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22188 (1897).
“Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, book Palm Sunday
"Palm Sunday", a sermon delivered at St. Clement's Church, New York City (ndg), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You" (ndg)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Context: Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
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As quoted in The New York Times (2 November 2001); also in The Victory Letters : Inspiration for the Human Race (2003) by Cheri Ruskus, p. 79
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Lines Written In Dejection http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1524/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) <br class="br">Context: When have I last looked on<br>The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies<br>Of the dark leopards of the moon?<br>All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,<br>For all their broom-sticks and their tears,<br>Their angry tears, are gone.
“I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
