Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
You're My Home.
Song lyrics, Piano Man (1973)
“Not all his men may sever this,
It yields to friends', not monarchs', calls;
My whinstone house my castle is—
I have my own four walls.”
“My Own Four Walls” (c. 1825)
1820s
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“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) Norwegian painter and printmaker
a note from Saint Cloud, 1898; as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 115
1896 - 1930
“From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me.”
Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician
As quoted in Philadelphia Daily News (3 March 2006).
Context: From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
Giuseppe Ungaretti book San Martino del Carso
San Martino del Carso (27 August 1916). [A Major Selection of the Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1997, ISBN 9781550960341]
Original: (it) Di queste case
non è rimasto
che qualche
brandello di muro
Di tanti
che mi corrispondevano
non è rimasto
neppure tanto
Ma nel cuore
nessuna croce manca
È il mio cuore
il paese più straziato.
“Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my
house—do not pass by like a dream.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings