“I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Source: Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 168, 169 https://archive.org/details/fiveyearswithco00wardgoog/page/n188/mode/2up Last Journals, page 188
“I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)
“I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft…”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
“Birds of a feather will gather together.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 1, subsection 2, Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.”
Henry Wotton (1568–1639) English ambassador
Preface to the Elements of Architecture (1624).
Hans Frank (1900–1946) German war criminal
Speech on the need to exterminate the Poles, January 25, 1943, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 439 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
“Ants never head for an empty granary:
no friends gather round when your wealth is gone.”
Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:
nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
I, ix, 9-10; translation by A.S. Kline
Tristia (Sorrows)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Imagination, like the atmosphere of spring, woos every seed of earth to seek the blue of heaven, and whispers of bud and flower and fruit. Imagination gathers from every field of thought and pours the wealth of many lives into the lap of one.