Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Am I Not Among the Early Risers"
West Wind (1997)
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Am I Not Among the Early Risers"
West Wind (1997)
“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.”
O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer
Last words, quoting a 1907 song by Harry Williams. (5 June 1910) Quoted in O. Henry Biography, ch. 9, Charles Alphonso Smith (1916).
Variant: Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.
“See those trees
Bend in the wind
I feel they've got a lot more sense than me
You see I try to resist…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Von wazzer boume sint gesaft.
wazzer früht al die geschaft,
der man für crêatiure giht.
mit dem wazzere man gesiht.
wazzer gît maneger sêle schîn,
daz die engl niht liehter dorften sîn.
Bk. 16, section 817, line 25; p. 406.
Parzival
“I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”
Sylvia Earle (1935) American oceanographer
Interview: Sylvia Earle Undersea Explorer http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/ear0int-1, Academy of Achievement, January 27, 1991
“I see them on their winding way,
About their ranks the moonbeams play.”
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman
"Lines written to a March".
need further publication dates
“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) American painter and printmaker
quoted by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Villard Books, New York, 1994, p. 76 - ISBN 978-0-394-58497-3
Quote, c. 1871 - shortly after the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned Mary Cassatt to paint two copies of paintings by Correggio in Parma, Italy
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
Stanza 2. <br class="br"> The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/landing_of_the_pilgrim_fathers.html (1826)
“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
Norman Douglas (1868–1952) British writer