“Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”

"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Three"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Source: The Courtship of Miles Standish

Peggy Sue, written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty
Song lyrics, Buddy Holly (1958)

"Yawcob Strauss", in Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1876), p. 69.

Knox College commencement address http://www.knox.edu/colbert.xml (3 June 2006)
Context: Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

Source: The Black Album