William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Song (How Sweet I Roamed), st. 4
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)
Inside Entertainment (2008)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Song (How Sweet I Roamed), st. 4
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)
M. Balamuralikrishna (1930–2016) Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer
Source: Staff Reporter, "Mangalampalli can't wait to come home"
On his singing on the occasion of an India-Pakistan cricket match.
Christine de Pizan De triste cuer chanter joyeusement
Car en mon cuer porte couvertement<br>Le dueil qui soit qui plus me puet desplaire,<br>Et si me fault, pour les gens faire taire,<br>Rire en plorant et très amerement<br>De triste cuer chanter joyeusement. <br class="br">Rondeau "De triste cuer chanter joyeusement", line 8; Maurice Roy (ed.) Œuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan (1886) vol. 1, p. 154, as translated by http://www.brindin.com/pfpistri.htm by Sheenagh Pugh.
“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
Colleen McCullough book The Thorn Birds
Epigraph, The Thorn Birds (1977)
Context: There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. … Or so says the legend.
“I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
You interview (2006)
“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)