“Alas, tears are the poet's heritage!”
Juliet after the Masquerade. By Thompson
The Troubadour (1825)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep
And all their tearful words will turn back into steam”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
Context: In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again. If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored. If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe. For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves.
Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India
Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 89.
Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) Scottish writer and artist
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
Context: I asked the headmaster of literature, "Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to train your own kind than ours?" He said, "No. The emperor needs all the headmasters he can get. If a quarter of his people were headmasters he would be perfectly happy. But more than two poets would tear his kingdom apart."
"Five Letters from an Eastern Empire", p. 88.