Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“But if you shoot at everyone you see,
Can't be my friend 'cause you might shoot at me.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
When a Kid Goes Bad
Lyrics, The Last DJ (2002)
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
G.K. Gokhale urged her to join the Indian Independence Movement quoted in [Naravane, Vishwanath S., Sarojini Naidu: An Introduction to Her Life, Work and Poetry, http://books.google.com/books?id=h6v8HsRUBucC&pg=PA133, 1 January 1996, Orient Blackswan, 978-81-250-0931-3, 133]
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
"Creation"
By Still Waters (1906)
Context: Sacred thy laughter on the air,
Holy thy lightest word that fell,
Proud the innumerable hair
That waved at the enchanter's spell.
Oh Master of the Beautiful,
Creating us from hour to hour,
Give me this vision to the full
To see in lightest things thy power!
This vision give, no heaven afar,
No throne, and yet I will rejoice,
Knowing beneath my feet a star,
Thy word in every wandering voice.
Adele (singer) (1988) British singer-songwriter
Cold Shoulder, written by Adele and Sacha Skarbek
Song lyrics, 19 (2008)
“He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.”
Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer
Source: Lost in Time