- Robin Williams (died: 11 August 2014)
"He used to tell me, 'What good is the day? On some hill of despair the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky -- though it's true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in...'" - Galway Kinnell (born: 1 February 1927)
"On some hill of despair the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky -- though it's true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in..." - Galway Kinnell (died: 28 October 2014)
Shakespeare Sunday
"You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair! Have the power till To banish your defenders; till at length Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels, Making not reservation of yourselves, Still your own foes, deliver you as most Abated captives to some nation That won you without blows! Despising, For you, the city, thus I turn my back: There is a world elsewhere." - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period." - Charles Dickens (born: 7 February 1812)