„Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.“
— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland, l. 1 (1807).
„See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.“
— Robert Burton, libro L'anatomia della malinconia
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Robert Burton8
saggista inglese 1577 - 1640Citazioni simili
— Robert E. Howard American author 1906 - 1936
From a letter to Robert W. Gordon (February 4, 1925)
Letters
— Peggy Noonan American author and journalist 1950
"Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton" in The Wall Street Journal (30 November 2007) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010924
„You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.“
— Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968
No vez el río de llanto porque la falta una lágrima tuya.
Voces (1943)
„A drop
Melting into the sea,
Everyone can see.
But the sea
Absorped
In a drop —
A rare one
can follow!“
— Kabir Indian mystic poet 1440 - 1518
Azfar Hussain translations
— Gustave Courbet French painter 1819 - 1877
Quote from Courbet's letter to his parents (1841); as quoted in Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century, Howard F. Isham, publisher: Peter Lang, 2004, Chapter 'Waterworlds', p. 307
reporting his experiences of a boat-trip with a friend over the Seine to the port of Le Havre; he made also a sketchbook of this trip in the Summer of 1841
1840s - 1850s
— John McPhee American writer 1931
In Suspect Terrain (1983), reprinted in Annals of the Former World (2000) page 209.
— Eugene Field American writer 1850 - 1895
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/wynkenblynkenandnod.html, st. 1
Love Songs of Childhood (1894)
— Haruki Murakami, libro A sud del confine, a ovest del sole
Origine: South of the Border, West of the Sun
„Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.“
— Norman Maclean American author and scholar 1902 - 1990
"A River Runs Through It", p. 161
A River Runs Through It (1976)
Contesto: Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.
— Hannah Senesh Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II 1921 - 1944
Will I succeed? Will I be able to fulfil God's command?
SENESH, Hannah, DAFNE, Reuven; PALGI, Yoel; SENESH, Catherine. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. London : Sphere, 1973. p. 92.
„Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.“
— Frida Kahlo Mexican painter 1907 - 1954
Origine: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
— Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Origine: Magic Rises
