“You lived aloof, maintaining to the end
your magnificent disdain.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
In Memory of M. B.
Farewell letter to Fidel Castro (1965)
“You lived aloof, maintaining to the end
your magnificent disdain.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
In Memory of M. B.
James Cromwell (1940) American actor and producer
"Tribeca Film Festival Interview: John and James Cromwell of A .45 at 50th" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cynthia-ellis/tribeca-film-festival-int_b_561477.html by Cynthia Ellis, in HuffingtonPost.com (4 July 2010)
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Into the Mystic
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
Adam Goldstein (1973–2009) American DJ
DJ AM’s friend rushed to his SoHo apt., but he was already dead http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/08/29/goldstein-suffered-daily-struggle-to-cope-29107/ Taragana. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor
Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 28 : Renoir's quote to Vollard referring to the Isle Grenouillere, where he painted in 1869, together with Claude Monet.
“A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Yew-Trees, l. 9 (1803).
Context: Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s