William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
America, A Prophecy.
1800s
Source: America: A Prophecy/Europe: A Prophecy: Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books
Source: Mockingjay
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
America, A Prophecy.
1800s
Source: America: A Prophecy/Europe: A Prophecy: Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books
“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Warrior of the Light
“As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.”
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
Stanza 27
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
“And so it fell upon a day,
(That is, it never rose again)”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Lays of Sorrow No.1
The Rectory Umbrella
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
September Song http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/september-song/. <br class="br">Poetry
“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”
William Makepeace Thackeray book The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
Context: Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.