“And what is Life? — An hour-glass on the run”
John Clare (1793–1864) English poet
"What is Life?"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
"Red Hill Mining Town"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: The Glass is cut, The Bottle run dry. Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night
“And what is Life? — An hour-glass on the run”
John Clare (1793–1864) English poet
"What is Life?"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“I feel that
these glass shoes are too fragile
for running through this era.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Beautiful Fighters
Lyrics, Secret
“Stop complaining about the price of your gas. Be thankful your car doesn't run on bottled water.”
David A. Ridenour, "If Your Car Ran on Bottled Water, You'd be Paying $6.40 a Gallon," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 1, 2006
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
“My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Source: Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba
Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 292)
“And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.”
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 13; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
Alcools (1912)