“Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.”
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Suzanne Collins554
American television writer and novelist 1962Related quotes
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Lin Huiyin (1904–1955) Chinese architect and writer
(zh-CN) 一样是月明,
一样是隔山灯火,
满天的星
只使人不见,
梦似的挂起。
"Do Not Throw Away" (《别丢掉》), translated by Michelle Yeh in A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002), p. 41
Variant translation:
The moon is still so bright;
Beyond the hills the lamp sheds the same light.
The sky besprinkled with star on star,
But I do not know where you are.
It seems
You hang above like dreams.
Xu Yuanchong, Vanished Springs: The Life and Love of a Chinese Intellectual (Vantage Press, 1999), pp. 44–45
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Litany for Dictatorships (1935)
Context: For the man crucified on the crossed machine guns
Without name, without resurrection, without stars,
His dark head heavy with death and his flesh long sour
With the smell of his many prisons — John Smith, John Doe,
John Nobody — oh, crack your mind for his name!
Faceless as water, naked as the dust,
Dishonored as the earth the gas-shells poison
And barbarous with portent.
This is he.
This is the man they ate at the green table
Putting their gloves on ere they touched the meat.
This is the fruit of war, the fruit of peace,
The ripeness of invention, the new lamb,
The answer to the wisdom of the wise.
And still he hangs, and still he will not die
And still, on the steel city of our years
The light falls and the terrible blood streams down.
“They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree!”
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) President of the Confederate States of America
"John Brown's Body" http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html (1861)