“The fragrant hair,
Falling as through the silence falleth now
Dusk of the air.”
Tutto E Sciolto, p. 13
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
“I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.”
"Self-Abandonment" ( 自遣 http://www.chinese-poems.com/lb14t.html), as translated by Arthur Waley (1919)
Act 10, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“What now if the sky were to fall?”
Act IV, scene 3, line 41 (719).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
Canto 3, stanza 1; Spenser here is referencing and paraphrasing a statement from the "Wife of Bath's Tale" of Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer: "he is gentil that doth gentil dedis."
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VI
“There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.”
“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”
Source: The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems
“More stars fall from the loosened sky.”
Pluraque laxato ceciderunt sidera caelo.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 145
