“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”
Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka
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“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 1, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 69
Source: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) American christian musician
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997) <br class="br">In Concert
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
Lyrics, Happy Hour (1992)
“Oh, bring again my heart's content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!”
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”
Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient
Source: The English Patient
Robert Gilfillan (1798–1850) British poet and songwriter
The Exile's Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
