Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.”
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) Poet
Quoted by Louis Untermeyer in Modern British Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=GiwMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+poet's+business%22+%22is+not+to+save+the+soul+of+man+but+to+make+it+worth+saving%22&pg=PA178#v=onepage (1920)
“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer
“O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul.”
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (1688–1740) politician, died 1740
Quoting for posterity the remarks of an unnamed soldier at the Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704), as reported by William King in Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times http://books.google.com/books?id=ShklAAAAMAAJ&q=%22O+God+if+there+be+a+God+save+my+soul+if+I+have+a+soul%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage (1818)
“How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?”
Jenna Blum book Het familieportret
Source: Those Who Save Us
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) British politician
"The War Speeches of William Pitt", Oxford University Press, 1915, p. 351
Speech at the Guildhall, City of London, 9 November 1805. This was Pitt's last speech in public.
“In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)
