“Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) American writer
'Exclusion of Rhyme' Alan Swallow Denver 1942
Epigrams
“Though joy be done with and grief be vain,
Time shall not sever us wholly in twain;
Earth is not spoilt for a single shower;
But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn.”
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: p>Before our lives divide for ever,
While time is with us and hands are free,
(Time, swift to fasten and swift to sever
Hand from hand, as we stand by the sea)
I will say no word that a man might say
Whose whole life's love goes down in a day;
For this could never have been; and never,
Though the gods and the years relent, shall be.Is it worth a tear, is it worth an hour,
To think of things that are well outworn?
Of fruitless husk and fugitive flower,
The dream foregone and the deed forborne?
Though joy be done with and grief be vain,
Time shall not sever us wholly in twain;
Earth is not spoilt for a single shower;
But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn.</p
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Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
Context: We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war.
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Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West
The Ballad of East and West (1889).
Other works
Context: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
Letter to James Warren (24 October 1780) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2094
“The pure memories given
To help our joy on earth, when earth is past,
Shall help our joy in heaven.”
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 407.
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
as quoted in Poems http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=Ep4tAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&vq=%22The+love+of+God%22#v=onepage&q=%22The%20love%20of%20God%22&f=false, from the Provensal Of Bernard Rascas
“Temptation: seeds we are forbidden to water, that are showered with rain.”
Yahia Lababidi (1973)
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
“Loud roared the dreadful thunder,
The rain a deluge showers.”
Andrew Cherry (1762–1812) irish writer
The Bay of Biscay (lyrics, c. 1805), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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"Back Home!", first version (1926); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 36
“All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter