Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 7 : Passion for Form, p. 127
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (August 18, 1893)
Letters
“The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 37, Oriental Religions in the West.
1949 election campaign speech https://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1949-robert-menzies, delivered in Melbourne on November 10, 1949
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
“To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.”
Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat.
L'Étourdi (1655), Act III, sc. v
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
Context: The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine, what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other; and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the time came. And though you and I may never know why this lane is called Shelley's, to us both it will always be the greenest lane in Sussex, because it leads to the special secret I spoke of.
As quoted in "Belafonte tells children that they are somebody" in The Deseret News (18 January 2005) http://www.deseretnews.com/article/600105520/Belafonte-tells-children-that-they-are-somebody.html
Said in 1909, as quoted in Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture http://books.google.com/books?id=2NKmvLXbZesC&pg=PA171&dq=%22To+the+World,+the+World+we+show%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xsDvUsX4F-nNsQTInIHQDQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22To%20the%20World%2C%20the%20World%20we%20show%22&f=false.
