WIST Quotations

Barzun, Jacques -- Interview (1986-12-04) by John C. Tibbetts, “Jacques Barzun on Robert Schumann”

Dave — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:00:41 +0000

My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don’t need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let’s play him more.

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Interview (1986-12-04) by John C. Tibbetts, “Jacques Barzun on Robert Schumann”
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George -- Letter to F. T. Mappin (25 Sep 1855)

Dave — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 16:08:10 +0000

For I know not why we should delay our tokens of respect to those who deserve them, until the heart that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove our repentance that we neglected it when with us.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist and politician
Letter to F. T. Mappin (25 Sep 1855)
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Quoted in The Illustrated London News, Vol. 27 (6 Oct 1855)

Campbell, Thomas -- “Hallowed Ground,” st. 6 (1825)

Dave — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:17:46 +0000

And is he dead whose glorious mind
Lifts thine on high?
To live in the hearts we leave
Is not to die!

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) Scottish poet
“Hallowed Ground,” st. 6 (1825)
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