Hearts and Bones
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)
“Our paths have crossed and parted,
This love affair was started
Long, long ago.”
Paul Williams (songwriter) (1940) American composer, singer, songwriter and actor
"Old Souls"
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Context: Our paths have crossed and parted,
This love affair was started
Long, long ago.
This love survives the ages
In its story lives are pages
Fill them up, may ours turn slow.
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Sick on a journey –
over parched fields
dreams wander on.
Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, London, 1985, p. 81 (Translation: Lucien Stryk)
Travelling, sick
My dreams roam
On a withered moor.
(Unknown translator)
Individual poems
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 193
Context: We embarked on our journey to the stars with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: What are the stars? Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
“Sick on a journey,
my dreams wander
the withered fields.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
旅に病で
夢は枯野を
かけ廻る
tabi ni yande
yume wa kareno wo
kake-meguru
Bashō's last poem, written while he was dying of a stomach illness. (Translation: Robert Hass)
Sick on a journey –
over parched fields
dreams wander on.
Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, London, 1985, p. 81 (Translation: Lucien Stryk)
Travelling, sick
My dreams roam
On a withered moor.
Unknown translator
Individual poems
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 829
As quoted in Traveling for Her: An Inspirational Guide (2008) by Amber Israelsen, p. 2
Variant: I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Koho Kenichi (1241–1316) Japanese sangha of Rinzai school in Kamakura era
Koho Kenichi (1241 - 1316), quoted in: junchiyabari.com http://junchiyabari.com/. Accessed 2018-06-23.
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
John Herman Randall, "The Nature of Naturalism", epilogue to Naturalism and the Human Spirit (1944)
Misattributed
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
