“He's following a star, the same one that the three men followed east.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace
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Bob Dylan523
American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941Related quotes
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
Context: I am the tender voice calling 'Away,'
Whispering between the beatings of the heart,
And inaccessible in dewy eyes
I dwell, and all unkissed on lovely lips,
Lingering between white breasts inviolate,
And fleeting ever from the passionate touch,
I shine afar, till men may not divine
Whether it is the stars or the beloved
They follow with wrapt spirit.
“Star of my heart, I follow from afar.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) American poet
Star Of My Heart (1913)
Context: Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,
Where Time is not, and only dreamers are.
Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead
And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed.
O lead me to Jehovah's child
Across this dreamland lone and wild,
Then will I speak this prayer unsaid,
And kiss his little haloed head—
"My star and I, we love thee, little child."
“I wouldn't dream of following a fashion… how could one be a different person every three months?”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Source: The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.
-Lady Whistledown”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: The Duke and I
“There are men of the East, he said,
who are the East.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"Anecdote of Men by the Thousand"
Context: There are men of the East, he said,
who are the East.
There are men of a province
who are that province.
There are men of a valley
who are that valley.
Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911) American writer
The Calf-Path http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Calf_Path, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).