Los Angeles Times (2004); on his response to Cukor's request to assist Rex Harrison to behave like a phonetician.
“I sing the cycle of my country's year,
I sing the tillage, and the reaping sing,
Classic monotony, that modes and wars
Leave undisturbed, unbettered, for their best
Was born immediate, of expediency.”
Winter, p. 1
The Land (1926)
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“And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.”
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
“Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.”
The Wild Goose Chase (c. 1621; published 1652), Act II. 2.
"The Lullabie of a Lover", line 1; p. 272.
A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573)
“I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.”
In Herbert F. Vetter, " Not The Average Philosopher http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/hartshorne.html", Harvard Magazine, May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. Vetter was surprised by this, given Hartshorne's dozens of substantial books on theology.
“In my solitude I sing to myself a sweet lullaby, as sweet as my mother used to sing to me.”
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
“I sing as the bird sings
That lives in the boughs.”
Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt
Der in den Zweigen wohnet.
Bk. II, Ch. 11
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)
As quoted in Poet, J. (11 February 2009)
Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/84-jul30.htm with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Cf. C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."