The Glass Bead Game (1943)
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in 1925-1926, but not published until 1958 by the Yale University Press
“The flowers flashed before they faded. She watched them flash.”
Virginia Woolf book Between the Acts
Between the Acts (1941)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(14th October 1826) Changes
The London Literary Gazette, 1826
“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”
Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)
“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) English Christian theologian, and mathematician
Isaac Barrow, Duty of Thanksgiving, Works, Volume I, p. 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 921-24
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (1599), st. 1–2
Inspired by Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
