“The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts
Not of two lovers, but two loves the nests.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
No. 18, Love's Progress, line 61
Elegies
“Leave the breast
And then the nest
And then regret you ever left.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
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Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320–1380) Welsh poet
Nythod ddwyn, cyd nithud ddail,
Ni'th dditia neb, ni'th etail,
Na llu rhugl, na llaw rhaglaw,
Na llafn glas na llif na glaw.
"Y Gwynt" (The Wind), line 13; translation by Joseph P. Clancy, from Gwyn Jones (ed.) The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English (Oxford: OUP, 1977) p. 39.
“Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,
Fly back and sing amidst this choir.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet
In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659.
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
“A painter can leave you with nothing left to say. A writer leaves you with everything to say.”
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
'Georg Christoph Lichtenberg', p. 405
Essays and reviews, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)
George Darley (1795–1846) Irish poet, novelist, and critic
Poem Nepenthe
“Look, you didn’t leave your party. The party left you.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
The Humanist interview (2012)
Context: I think feminists and progressive Democrats err when they accusingly say to Republican women, “How can you be a Republican?” Nobody responds to that. But if you say, “Look, you didn’t leave your party. The party left you. Let’s just look at the issues and see what they are and forget about party labels and vote for ourselves,” I think people would really respond.
“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor