Joan Baez (1941) American singer
"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Three"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
Sky is the limit
Joan Baez (1941) American singer
"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Three"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
H. D. Deve Gowda (1933) Indian politician
Source: Girja Kumar The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA460&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bJe6U8othJWTBe2mgLAD&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Har-Anand Publications, 01-Jan-1997
“I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.”
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) American general in the American Revolutionary War
As quoted in Conflict of conviction: a reappraisal of Quaker involvement in the American Revolution (1990), by William C. Kashatus, p. 45
“Forgive my indecision. I am only a man.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Morning View (2001)
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
As quoted in "Sci-fi legend "Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN : Living (2 August 2010) http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-02/living/Bradbury_1_ray-bradbury-dandelion-wine-sam-weller?_s=PM:LIVING, p. 1
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Fold of the Bards
Context: I am a harmonious one; I am a clear singer.
I am steel; I am a druid.
I am an artificer; I am a scientific one.
I am a serpent; I am love; I will indulge in feasting.
I am not a confused bard drivelling,
When songsters sing a song by memory,
They will not make wonderful cries;
May I be receiving them.
Like receiving clothes without a hand,
Like sinking in a lake without swimming
The stream boldly rises tumultuously in degree.
Richard Halliburton (1900–1939) American writer
The Royal Road to Romance (1925).
Context: Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world... and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.
“Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Source: movie Amadeus (1984)