“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
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“And don’t confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.”
The Monks and the Giants (published c. 1871), canto i, line 6, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Tenho por ti uma paixão
Tão forte tão acrisolada,
Que até adoro a saudade
Quando por ti é causada
Quoted in Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011), p. 192
Translation by John D. Godinho
“people see me
I'm a challenge to your balance
I'm over your heads
how I confound you and astound you”
Song lyrics, Tigerlily (1995), Wonder
"That's What Love Is For", co-written with Michael Omartian and Mark Mueller
Song lyrics, Heart in Motion (1991)
“Down in the deep, up in the sky,
I see them always, far or nigh,
And I shall see them till I die —”
"Magnus and Morna", in Thirty Years, Poems New and Old (1880)
Context: p>Down in the deep, up in the sky,
I see them always, far or nigh,
And I shall see them till I die —The old familiar faces.</p
