Self-Pity (1929)
Source: The Complete Poems
“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
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Henry Miller 187
American novelist 1891–1980Related quotes
“Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”
I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin (1973)
Song lyrics
June 2, 2005, following the assassination of colleague Samir Kassir.
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“Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”
Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 2 "I First Hear Of Mr Andrew Lumley"
I Just Called to Say I Love You
Song lyrics, The Woman in Red (1984)
“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”
The Soldier's Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).
“I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.”