„The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.“
— Victor Hugo, livro Notre-Dame de Paris
Fonte: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
„The ancient owls' nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,
a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down“
Poem: The Armadillo http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bishop.armadillo.html
Elizabeth Bishop2
1911 - 1979Citações relacionadas
„We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.“
— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965
Voicing opposition to the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950
Contexto: The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a national characteristic of the police state, not of democracy. The history of Soviet Russia is a modern example of this ancient practice. I must, in good conscience, protest against any unnecessary suppression of our rights as free men. We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.
— Jesus Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity -7 - 30 a.C.
86
Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)
— Edward Lear British artist, illustrator, author and poet 1812 - 1888
Book of Nonsense http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/nnsns10.txt, Limerick 1 (1846).
— Cassandra Clare, livro City of Bones
Jace to Clary, pg. 192
Fonte: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Contexto: "Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."
— Lal Bahadur Shastri The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party 1904 - 1966
— Pink (singer) American singer-songwriter 1979
Funhouse, written by Pink, Tony Kanal and Jimmy Harry
Song lyrics, Funhouse (2008)
„Tis the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.“
— Thomas Moore, The Last Rose of Summer
The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
— Carl Oglesby American political activist 1935 - 2011
"The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction" (1972)
— Thomas Pynchon, livro Gravity's Rainbow
Fonte: Gravity's Rainbow
„We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.“
— Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Deputy Governor Danforth
The Crucible (1953)
„Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
This is the way of the Monkey-kind!“
— Rudyard Kipling, livro The Jungle Book
Road-Song of the Bandar-Log.
The Jungle Book (1894)
— Fred Weatherly English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster 1848 - 1929
Song Danny Boy http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22729
— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965
Voicing opposition to the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950
