„Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.“

„My plan is to show you that the way out of your problems is to listen again to the true voice of God within your hearts, to share the produce of this most bountiful of worlds among your brothers and sisters everywhere.“

—  Benjamin Creme artist, author, esotericist 1922 - 2016

Message No. 11
Messages from Maitreya the Christ (1981)

„I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.“

—  Cassandra Clare, buch Clockwork Prince

Quelle: Clockwork Prince

„My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too.“

—  Peter S. Beagle, buch The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn (1968)

„I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain“

—  Cassandra Clare, buch Clockwork Prince

Quelle: Clockwork Prince

„We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.“

—  Richard Siken American poet 1967

Quelle: Crush

„It is costing much money here, a thing I regret. But you will get your money's worth. My legs curse you. But my heart says 'Thank you.“

—  Maynard Owen Williams American journalist 1888 - 1963

from a letter to John Oliver la Gorce, the Geographic's assistant editor (1923)

„Heart, my heart, so battered with misfortune far beyond your strength,
up, and face the men who hate us.“

—  Archilochus Ancient Greek lyric poet -680 - -645 v.Chr

Fragment 67, as translated by R. Lattimore http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/arkhilokhos67.htm
Variant translations:
Soul, my soul, don't let them break you,
all these troubles. Never yield:
though their force is overwhelming,
up! attack them shield to shield...
"Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment http://web.archive.org/20030629194753/geocities.com/joncpoetics/translations/Archsoul.htm as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis http://web.archive.org/20030805055937/www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
Take the joy and bear the sorrow,
looking past your hopes and fears:
learn to recognize the measured
dance that orders all our years.
"Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment, as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis
Fragments
Original: (el) θυμέ, θύμ᾽ ἀμηχάνοισι κήδεσιν κυκώμενε,
ἄνα δέ, δυσμενέων δ᾽ ἀλέξευ προσβαλὼν ἐναντίον
στέρνον, ἐν δοκοῖσιν ἐχθρῶν πλησίον κατασταθείς
ἀσφαλέως· καὶ μήτε νικῶν ἀμφαδὴν ἀγάλλεο
μηδὲ νικηθεὶς ἐν οἴκωι καταπεσὼν ὀδύρεο.
ἀλλὰ χαρτοῖσίν τε χαῖρε καὶ κακοῖσιν ἀσχάλα
μὴ λίην· γίνωσκε δ᾽ οἷος ῥυσμὸς ἀνθρώπους ἔχει.
Kontext: Heart, my heart, so battered with misfortune far beyond your strength,
up, and face the men who hate us. Bare your chest to the assault
of the enemy, and fight them off. Stand fast among the beamlike spears.
Give no ground; and if you beat them, do not brag in open show,
nor, if they beat you, run home and lie down on your bed and cry.
Keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you
give way to sorrow. All our life is up-and-down like this.

„Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?“

—  Tori Amos American singer 1963

„Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul“

—  Diana Gabaldon, buch Drums of Autumn

Variante: Your face is my heart
Quelle: Drums of Autumn

„My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The City of Lost Souls

Variante: And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.
Quelle: City of Lost Souls

„Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.“

—  Anthony Kiedis, buch Scar Tissue

Quelle: Scar Tissue

„If ink and pen are snatched from me, shall I
Who have dipped my finger in my heart's blood complain—
Of if they seal my tongue, when I have made
A mouth of every round link of my chain?“

—  Faiz Ahmad Faiz Punjabi poet 1911 - 1984

Poems by Faiz, translated by Victor Kiernan, 1971, p. 117
Poetry, Stanzas

„Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.“

—  Oscar Wilde, buch The Happy Prince and Other Tales

"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)

„The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.“

—  George Sarton American historian of science 1884 - 1956

Preface.
A History of Science Vol.2 Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. (1959)

„Extinguish my sight, and I can still see you;
plug up my ears, and I can still hear;
even without feet I can walk toward you,
and without mouth I can still implore.
Break off my arms, and I will hold you
with my heart as if it were a hand;
strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb;
and should you set fire to my brain,
I still can carry you with my blood.“

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, buch Das Stunden-Buch

Translated by Annemarie S. Kidder
Das Stunden-Buch (The Book of Hours) (1905)

„Shall we dance, friend of my heart?“

—  Christopher Paolini, buch Eragon - Der Auftrag des Ältesten

Eragon
Quelle: Eldest (2005)

„I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmédy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.“

—  Stephen Vincent Benét poet, short story writer, novelist 1898 - 1943

Quelle: "American Names" (1931)

„I thank you, fellow-citizens, for this magnificent demonstration. In so far as I represent in my heart and life the great doctrines for which you fought, I accept this demonstration as a tribute to my representative character. [Applause. ] In the strength of your hands, in the fervor of your hearts, in the firmness of your faith, in all that betokens greatness of manhood and nobleness of character, the Republic finds its security and glory. [Applause. ] I do not enter upon controverted questions. The time, the place, the situation forbid it. I respect the traditions that require me to speak only of those themes which elevate us all. Again I thank you for the kindness and enthusiasm of your greeting.“

—  James A. Garfield American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881) 1831 - 1881

Tremendous cheering.
1880s, Speech to the 'Boys in Blue' (1880)

„Blest pair! if aught my verse avail,
No day shall make your memory fail
From off the heart of time.“

—  John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 324