“It is difficult
to get the news from poems”
William Carlos Williams book Journey to Love
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower
“It is difficult
to get the news from poems”
William Carlos Williams book Journey to Love
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
“It is difficult to get a hearing from busy men for even a great new truth.”
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952) English neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
[408247, October 1927, Listerian Oration: 1927 (delivered at the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, Toronto, June 18, 1927), Canadian Medical Association Journal, 17, 10 Pt 2, 1255–1263, 20316567, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC408247/] quote from p. 1261; This oration sponsored by the Lister Club of the Canadian Medical Association should not be confused with the Lister Oration sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
Part 1: "The Creative Mind", §9 ( p. 20 http://books.google.com/books?id=TeHXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22We+re-make+nature+by+the+act+of+discovery+in+the+poem+or+in+the+theorem+And+the+great+poem+and+the+deep+theorem+are+new+to+every+reader+and+yet+are+his+own+experience+because+he+himself+re-creates+them%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage) <br class="br">Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"To An Ungentle Critic"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon”
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
Source: Daughter of the Blood
“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
“Tomorrow'll be a new day. Which is really the same miserable fucking day all over again.”
Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer
Part I, Ch.2 - p.9 [Page numbers per the Picador 2018 UK paperback.]
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
“After wars peace, after peace, another war. Every day men are born and others die.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
All Men are Mortal (1946)