Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 19: A Wreath of Cloud
“God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.”
"Main Street"
Main Street and Other Poems (1917)
Context: God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.
Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown,
But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown.
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American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886–1918Related quotes
Arthur Waley
(1889–1966) British academic
Source: Translations, The Tale of Genji (1925–1933), Ch. 19: 'A Wreath of Cloud'
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Song lyrics, Tapestry (1971)
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My feet just led the way”
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If The Brakeman turns my way
Cassadaga (2007)
“Shine by the side of every path we tread
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"Tirocinium", line 79 (1785).
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William Cullen Bryant
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Empedocles
(-490–-430 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
tr. Phillip H. De Lacy and Benedict Einarson. Cf. full quotation at Leonard p. 54-55 https://books.google.com/books?id=omUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false
fr. 115, as paraphrased in Plutarch's Moralia
Purifications
Context: A law there is, an oracle of Doom, Of old enacted by the assembled gods, That if a Daemon—such as live for ages— Defile himself with foul and sinful murder, He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam Far from the Blest; such is the path I tread, I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.