“Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.”
Source: The Time Between
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Context: Great hail! we cry to the comers
From the dazzling unknown shore;
Bring us hither your sun and your summers;
And renew our world as of yore;
You shall teach us your song's new numbers,
And things that we dreamed not before:
Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,
And a singer who sings no more.
“Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.”
Source: The Time Between
Dry Your Eyes, co-written with Robbie Robertson
Song lyrics, Beautiful Noise (1976)
On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, stanza 1 (1624). In some versions "moon" replaces "sun". This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books", for example.
Source: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Source: Pathways to Bliss (2004), p. 104
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 555.