“Shall I be gone long?
For ever and a day
To whom there belong?
Ask the stone to say
Ask my song.”
Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972) English poet
Is it far to go? (1963)
“Unlike my subject will I frame my song,
It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.”
Epigram on ("Long") Sir Thomas Robinson
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Yehuda he-Hasid (1140–1217) German philosopher
Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
“Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Introduction, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“My song shall spread where ever there are men,
If wit and art will so much guide my pen.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Cantando espalharei por toda parte,
Se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte.
Stanza 2, lines 7–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe, 1655)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) American journalist, actress
<!-- [http://www.elainedundy.com/stranger.html DEAD LINK --> "A Stranger Comes to Town" (c. 2001)
Context: I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize that a single thread ran through them, that I'd used the same strategy to catch the reader's attention. It is the old Western movie gimmick: A Stranger Comes to Town. I am that Stranger. Together with the reader I will discover what's going on in that town whether it be Paris, London, New York, Sydney, Tupelo, Ferriday — or in a women's federal prison. And eventually we will make sense of it.
Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator
Reported in George Shelley Hughs, Ancient Civilizations (1896), p. 596.
