Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ The Spades (Roky Erickson 1947- ) ...We Sell Soul

Love is the wind, the tide, the waves, the sunshine.
Its power is incalculable; it is many horse-power.
It never ceases, it never slacks; it can move the globe without a resting-place;
It can warm without fire; It can feed without meat;
It can clothe without garments; it can shelter without roof;
It can make a paradise within which will dispense with a paradise without.
But though the wisest men in all ages have labored to publish this force,
And every human heart is, sooner or later, more or less, made to feel it,
Yet how little is actually applied to social ends!

C.S. Lewis 1898-1963 ~ Paul McCartney 1942- ...How Kind Of You

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience,
But shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Adlai Stevenson 1900-1965 ~ Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen ~ Lawrence Welk

...I have lost an inspiration.
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness,
And her glow has warmed the world.

Helen Keller 1880-1968 ~ Neko Case 1970- ...Maybe Sparrow

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness,
Because to have knowledge - Broad, deep knowledge -
Is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to
Feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries;
And if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving,
One must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.