Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 115.
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, New York Times (26 August 1981)
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“Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not!”
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Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
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And Hope without an object cannot live.
“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”
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"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage. <br class="br">Hesperides (1648)
“Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((”
Jerome David Salinger book Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
2006, 2006 International Qods Conference address
“Blooms in its day and may not last forever.”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
