
"Philip and Mildred".
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
Source: Meditation:Insights and Inspirations (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=s2ctBgAAQBAJ,
"Philip and Mildred".
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
“and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Our father who art in heaven
Stay there
And we will stay here on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty”
Pater Noster
Franziska was of somewhat sentimental disposition.
written text with brush, in her painting JHM no. 4175 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charlotte_Salomon#/media/File:Charlotte_Salomon_-_JHM_4175.jpg: in 'Life? or Theater..', p. 66
her mother committed suicide when Charlotte was still a young girl - as many in her family did, before or later
Charlotte Salomon - Life? or Theater?
“A youth to whom was given
So much of earth—so much of heaven,
And such impetuous blood.”
Ruth, st. 21 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I am Yali, and I would like to welcome you to Heaven. I hope you will enjoy your stay.”
He laughed heartily, as at a private joke. “Yes, I most certainly hope you do. After all, some of you may stay forever. It is a nice place, actually, one of those infinitely rare situations where one is rewarded commensurately to one’s efforts. Surely that is Heaven by any man’s definition?”
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 19, “Neck Riddles” (p. 258)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.