
“In history, the arrival of a small man in a big hat is rarely good news.”
Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode VI, Revolution (28 October 2012)
Steinar's wife
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
“In history, the arrival of a small man in a big hat is rarely good news.”
Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode VI, Revolution (28 October 2012)
"Pietà"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
Source: Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know, 2011, p. xiv
“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”
"Citizens of the City of Light," p. 27
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
Celtic Women in Music interview (1999)
Context: There is a wonderful old Chinese proverb that I love, "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving". I think about my personal approach to musical projects much like a travel writer might approach the preparation for a book. You latch on to a certain theme or historical event and follow that into the unknown, while, at the same time, expanding on those themes.
“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late
From the poems written in English
As quoted in "Tibet's Living Buddha" by Pico Iyer, p. 32.
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)