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Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Nature
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Tears, Idle Tears (1847)In context
- Time
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Life & Death
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto VIn context
- Writing
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What is Art? (1897)
- Art
There’s always been an emotion in my voice because it reached back to the life I was living. Where there were tears on stage, it wasn’t Hollywood, it was real.
Tina Turner1939–2023My Love Story (2018/19), Motto
- Music
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
David Foster Wallace1962–2008The Pale King (2011)
At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter VIIIn context
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Maud Muller (1856)In context
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XVIIIIn context
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Easter, 1916 (1920)In context