George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
You Would Have Understood Me
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
You Would Have Understood Me
Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
"The Best Fun I Ever Had" (song) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "The Best Fun I Ever Had" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY2zGAXEkmg (song on YouTube)
“I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.”
Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! et ecce intus eras et ego foris, et ibi te quaerebam.
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
Variant translations:
So late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! So late I loved you!
The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett (2007), by Lee Oser, p. 29
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion (1970) by Alice Von Hildebrand
Confessions (c. 397)