Source: The Complete Poems
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
J'ai vu des archipels sidéraux! et des îles<br>Dont les cieux délirants sont ouverts au vogueur:<br>Est-ce en ces nuits sans fond que tu dors et t'exiles,<br>Million d'oiseaux d'or, ô future Vigueur ? <br class="br">St. 25 <br class="br"> Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)
“The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate”
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
"Tomorrow"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate;
And every bee that wings its sidelong flight
Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.
“Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.”
Nanak (1469–1539) Founder of Sikhism
Guru Nanak quotes
Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
Pig
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
Robert Louis Stevenson book Underwoods
Bk. I, Requiem (the final sentence was used on Stevenson's Gravestone).
Underwoods (1887)
Context: Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957) Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer
Source: Alone (1938), Ch. 1
Context: What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.
“O for that Night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!”
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
"The Night," l. 49.
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: There is in God — some say —
A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that Night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!
“It beckons, I follow.
Good-by to the light,
I am going, O whither?
Out into the night.”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) American poet
The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
