“The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.”

On singing in "Julio Iglesias says 50-year singing career is 'a miracle'" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-julio-iglesias/julio-iglesias-says-50-year-singing-career-is-a-miracle-idUSKCN1T60WU in Reuters (2019 Jun 5)

Valence, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)

In Defense of the Earth (1956), She Is Away
Context: Now I know surely and forever,
However much I have blotted our
Waking love, its memory is still
there. And I know the web, the net,
The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
One brief instant it was not blind, nor
Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
I who am lost and damned with words,
Whose words are a business and an art,
I have no words. These words, this poem, this
Is all confusion and ignorance.
But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
My heart beat one free beat and sent
Through all my flesh the blood of truth.

From the Quotes http://www.prevale.net/quotes.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) ​Sei il motivo principale che alimenta il battito del mio cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Original: (it) Il suono della tua voce anima il battito del mio cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Let men say just what they like. Let them propose to cut every throat and burn every house - if they so like it. We have nothing to do with a man's words or a man's thoughts, except to put against them better words and better thoughts, and so to win in the great moral and intellectual duel that is always going on, and on which all progress depends.
Westminster Gazette (1893)

Source: Lover at Last

The Brookside.