Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Variant translation: Hence all those tears shed.
Source: Andria (The Lady of Andros), Line 126.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Brian McNaughton (1935–2004) US author
Attributed to McNaughton online, this actually is a quote from an English edition of The History of the Caliph Vathek (1786) by William Thomas Beckford, as translated by Samuel Henley.
Misattributed
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
Stephen King book The Shining
Source: The Shining
Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) Gaelic games commentatot
As Katie Taylor triumphed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. irishtimes.com http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0811/1224321996178.html <br class="br">Olympic Games
Robert Frost book Collected Poems of Robert Frost
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Variant: The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Source: Collected Poems of Robert Frost
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.