“Among them pert-faced Elegy draws near.”
ii, line 7
Silvae, Book I
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John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father
Homilies on the Statues http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109/Page_472.html, Homily XX
Hal Borland (1900–1978) American journalist and writer
"Dandelions," http://books.google.com/books?id=IYYZAAAAIAAJ&q=%22You+fight+dandelions+all+week+end+and+late+Monday+afternoon+there+they+are+pert+as+all+get+out+in+full+and+gorgeous+bloom+pretty+as+can+be+thriving+as+only+dandelions+can+in+the+face+of+adversity%22&pg=PA60#v=onepage The New York Times, 9 May 1954 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE5D9113CE43ABC4153DFB366838F649EDE
“Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: The so-called inseparable cohesions of national interests vanish away as soon as you draw near to examine them. There are individual interests and a general interest, those two only. When you say "I," it means "I"; when you say "We," it means Man. So long as a single and identical Republic does not cover the world, all national liberations can only be beginnings and signals!
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Notes from Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages (1873-1874)
Context: What is Mysticism? Is it not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for " The Kingdom of Heaven is within"? Heaven is neither a place nor a time. There might be a Heaven not only here but now. It is true that sometimes we must sacrifice not only health of body, but health of mind (or, peace) in the interest of God; that is, we must sacrifice Heaven. But "thou shalt be like God for thou shalt see Him as He is": this may be here and now, as well as there and then. And it may be for a time — then lost — then recovered — both here and there, both now and then.
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) French painter and printmaker
letter to his grandmother, c. 1883; as cited in Pierre Bonnard, by John Rewald; MoMA -distribution, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1918, p. 12 (note 1)
“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.”
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
October. A Sonnet http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page115 (1866)
“Love is enough: draw near and behold me
Ye who pass by the way to your rest and your laughter”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Love is Enough (1872), Song IV: Draw Near and Behold Me
Context: Love is enough: draw near and behold me
Ye who pass by the way to your rest and your laughter,
And are full of the hope of the dawn coming after;
For the strong of the world have bought me and sold me
And my house is all wasted from threshold to rafter.
— Pass by me, and hearken, and think of me not!