
Tupelo Honey
Song lyrics, Tupelo Honey (1971)
Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel
Tupelo Honey
Song lyrics, Tupelo Honey (1971)
Lyrics of "Loved by the Sun", on the soundtrack of the film Legend (1986).
“So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)
Captain Michael Hogan, p. 254
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Havoc (2003)
“The books we love, love us back.”
Acceptance speech http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=leonardAcceptanceSpeech, National Book Critics Circle 2006 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (8 March 2007)
Context: My whole life I have been waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. From these writers, for almost 50 years, I have received narrative, witness, companionship, sanctuary, shock, and steely strangeness; good advice, bad news, deep chords, hurtful discrepancy, and amazing grace. At an average of five books a week, not counting all those sighed at and nibbled on before they go to the Strand, I will read 13,000. Then I'm dead. Thirteen thousand in a lifetime, about as many as there are new ones published every month in this country.
It's not enough, and yet rich to excess. The books we love, love us back. In gratitude, we should promise not to cheat on them — not to pretend we're better than they are; not to use them as target practice, agit-prop, trampolines, photo ops or stalking horses; not to sell out scruple to that scratch-and-sniff info-tainment racket in which we posture in front of experience instead of engaging it, and fidget in our cynical opportunism for an angle, a spin, or a take, instead of consulting compass points of principle, and strike attitudes like matches, to admire our wiseguy profiles in the mirrors of the slicks. We are reading for our lives, not performing like seals for some fresh fish.
“That's the nature of women … not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.