"Now That Men Can Cry...," p. 299
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
Sultan Bahu (1630–1691) Punjabi poet
Raj Kumar: Encyclopaedia of Untouchables Ancient, Medieval and Modern, p. 187 https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=e8o5HyC0-FUC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Kashf ul Asrār, Stanza
“Leave
To poets a moment of happiness,
Otherwise your world will perish.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"In Warsaw" (1945), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz, Robert Hass and Madeline Levine
Rescue (1945)
Context: How can I live in this country
Where the foot knocks against
The unburied bones of kin?
I hear voices, see smiles. I cannot
Write anything; five hands
Seize my pen and order me to write
The story of their lives and deaths.
Was I born to become
a ritual mourner?
I want to sing of festivities,
The greenwood into which Shakespeare
Often took me. Leave
To poets a moment of happiness,
Otherwise your world will perish.
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CXV: On the Superficial Blessings
“Men were born to die! Life has only one purpose: to understand the sense of your own misery.”
Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney
Variant: Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), p. 95 (1994 edition)
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book Flight to Arras
Les pierres du chantier ne sont en vrac qu’en apparence, s’il est, perdu dans le chantier, un homme, serait-il seul, qui pense cathédrale.
Pilote de Guerre (1942) (translated into English as Flight to Arras)
