Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
“Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?”
“Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.”
He winked.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Tape recording declaring how he recited one of his poems in response to a question "What is your background?" (1992)
Shadowbox Studio
Context: I am a being of Heaven and Earth,
of thunder and lightning,
of rain and wind,
of the galaxies,
of the suns and the stars
and the void through which they travel.
The essence of nature,
eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear,
known as the great illusion time,
and the all-prevailing atmosphere.
And now you know my background.
" Ode http://www.bartleby.com/126/44.html", The Fair Maid of the Inn
Poems (1820)
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
Source: A Dream of John Ball (1886), Ch. 4: The Voice of John Ball
Context: Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them, and the life that is in it, that shall live on and on for ever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.
Therefore, I bid you not dwell in hell but in heaven, or while ye must, upon earth, which is a part of heaven, and forsooth no foul part.
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
“Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
"Sorrows Succeed". Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.
Hesperides (1648)
