“I am that one person
Who eats his breakfast,
Gazing at morning nothing.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #174 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/174 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth) <br class="br">Individual poems <br class="br">Original: (ja) 朝顔に<br>我は飯食ふ<br>男かな <br class="br">Original: (ja) asagao ni<br>ware wa meshi kû<br>otoko kana
“I am sitting in the morning
at the diner on the corner”
Suzanne Vega (1959) American singer
Tom's Diner
Solitude Standing (1987)
Context: I am sitting in the morning
at the diner on the corner
I am waiting at the counter
for the man to pour the coffee
and he fills it only halfway
and before I even argue
he is looking out the window
at somebody coming in.
“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Béla Lugosi (1882–1956) Hungarian actor
Interview for the Broadway Newsreel https://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/1939-3/ (April 5, 1939)
“If I hear the Way [of truth] in the morning, I am content even to die in that evening.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter IV
“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.”
H. Allen Smith (1907–1976) American journalist
“Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
“Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Essential Calvin And Hobbes
