
“Turn and face the strange changes.”
Song lyrics, Hunky Dory (1971)
Source: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange.
Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, st. 3 (1878).
Context: Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange;
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.
“Turn and face the strange changes.”
Song lyrics, Hunky Dory (1971)
Source: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange.
Explaining her song "Call Me When You're Sober" in "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs" at VH1 News (18 September 2006) http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1540914/story.jhtml
“Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning
And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.”
"The Wheel"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope
Variant translation or similar statement: Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Context: Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
New Year's Eve
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)