James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
Act III, scene iv.
Manfred (1817)
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Nacht faltet zitternde Hände über der müden Welt. Aus blassem Blau steigt leuchtend der Mond. Meine Gedanken fliegen wie einsame Schwäne in die Sterne.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Hannah Senesh (1921–1944) Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II
Will I succeed? Will I be able to fulfil God's command?
SENESH, Hannah, DAFNE, Reuven; PALGI, Yoel; SENESH, Catherine. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. London : Sphere, 1973. p. 92.
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
Artist and Model.
Context: I ask no more from mortals
Than your beautiful face implies,—
The beauty the artist beholding
Interprets and sanctifies.
Who says that men have fallen,
That life is wretched and rough?
I say, the world is lovely,
And that loveliness is enough.
So my doubting days are ended,
And the labour of life seems clear;
And life hums deeply around me,
Just like the murmur here,
And quickens the sense of living,
And shapes me for peace and storm,—
And dims my eyes with gladness
When it glides into colour and form!
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Source: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 71 - 80
Context: Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were
To see thee in our water yet appear,
And make those flights upon the banks of Thames,
That so did take Eliza, and our James.
But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere
Advanc'd, and made a constellation there!
Shine forth, thou star of poets, and with rage,
Or influence, chide, or cheer the drooping stage,
Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn'd like night,
And despairs day, but for thy volumes light.
Izumi Shikibu (976–1033) Japanese poet
Translated by Arthur Waley
"Said to be [Izumi Shikibu's] death-verse; the moon may refer to Buddha's teachings." Anthology Of Japanese Literature (1955) by Donald Keene, p. 92
“At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
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The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)