Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 115.
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, New York Times (26 August 1981)
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“Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not!”
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”
"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage.
Hesperides (1648)
“Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((”
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
2006, 2006 International Qods Conference address