“Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know.”
Julian of Norwich (1983)
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Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
On himself, as quoted in Interview by Julie Webb for New Musical Express (12 March 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_03-12-1974_-_NME; he is often reported to have said "I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!" but it does not appear in that form in the article.
“I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.”
Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
“Sundown yellow moon I replay the past
I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello
Variant: I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast
“Yeah, Uh-huh you know what it is,(black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow)”
Wiz Khalifa (1987) American rapper and actor
Black and Yellow, written by Wiz Khalifa, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen
Studio Albums, Rolling Papers (2011)
Robert Louis Stevenson book Treasure Island
and I lived on rum, I tell you.
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot.
“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Georgic III, lines 380.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Amor omnibus idem.
Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
Georgics (29 BC)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Part I, section xxii, stanza 2
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)