Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer
Song The Carnival Is Over.
Nothing Will Die (1830)
Context: When will the stream be aweary of flowing
Under my eye?
When will the wind be aweary of blowing
Over the sky?
When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting?
When will the heart be aweary of beating?
And nature die?
Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die.
Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer
Song The Carnival Is Over.
William Sharp (writer) (1855–1905) Scottish writer
From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Voices of the Night
St. 4.
Cf. Andrew Marvell, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649): "Art indeed is long, but life is short".
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night
Arnaut Daniel (1150–1210) Occitan troubadour
"Ab gai so cundet e leri", line 12; translation by Leonardo Malcovati http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/arnaut_daniel/arnaut_daniel_04.php
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"The Promised Land"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 52 - 53
Context: Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate, Mr. Kung taught me, is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
This World is all a fleeting Show.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Symbol 8
The Symbols