“Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.”
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet
XIX, p. 21
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
The Awakening (1899)
“Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.”
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet
XIX, p. 21
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
" Poem in October http://www.bigeye.com/october.htm", st. 5 (1946)
“I sometimes have the feeling that I have lived through all this before and, in a sense, I have.”
Leó Szilárd (1898–1964) Physicist and biologist
Are We on the Road to War?
Context: I sometimes have the feeling that I have lived through all this before and, in a sense, I have. I was sixteen years old when the first World War broke out, and I lived at that time in Hungary. From reading the newspapers in Hungary, it would have appeared that, whatever Austria and Germany did was right and whatever England, France, Russia, or America did was wrong. A good case could be made out for this general thesis, in almost every single instance. It would have been difficult for me to prove, in any single instance, that the newspapers were wrong, but somehow, it seemed to me unlikely that the two nations located in the center of Europe should be invariably right, and that all the other nations should be invariably wrong. History, I reasoned, would hardly operate in such a peculiar fashion, and it didn't take long until I began to hold views which were diametrically opposed to those held by the majority of my schoolmates.
Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer
Song Summer Is Over.
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/american-pie-1999 of American Pie (9 July 1999) <br class="br">Reviews, Three star reviews