
I've Been This Way Before
Song lyrics, Serenade (1974)
The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler
I've Been This Way Before
Song lyrics, Serenade (1974)
2008, A World that Stands as One (July 2008)
Context: People of Berlin — and people of the world — the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.
Throughout my life I have acquired some wisdom but always through rationality, thought, and experience. I am a rational person and I work only through my own experience. My lifestyle is that of a secular person, and I have learned about human beings that way
Paris Review interview (2007)
Source: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 290
“Where have my ravish'd senses been!
What joys, what wonders, have I seen!”
Henry in Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, sc. i.
Context: Where have my ravish'd senses been!
What joys, what wonders, have I seen!
The scene yet stands before my eye,
A thousand glorious deeds that lie
In deep futurity obscure,
Fights and triumphs immature,
Heroes immers'd in time's dark womb,
Ripening for mighty years to come,
Break forth, and, to the day display'd,
My soft inglorious hours upbraid.
Transported with so bright a scheme,
My waking life appears a dream.
Source: Unsinkable : A Memoir (2013), Chapter 18. Family and Faith
Carefree Highway, Track 8, Reprise
Sundown (1974)
The Church in Papua committed to the new evangelization http://www.fides.org/en/news/31701-OCEANIA_PAPUA_NEW_GUINEA_The_Church_in_Papua_committed_to_the_new_evangelization (11 June 2012)