A short life in the saddle, Lord!
Not long life by the fire.

Louise Imogen Guiney

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Topic

Living life to the fullest Taking risks Going for it

Author

Louise Imogen Guiney

Source

The Knight Errant

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Guiney, Louise Imogen. "The Knight Errant." A Roadside Harp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893, st. 2.

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Another quote from the 1890s

My task... To make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

Joseph Conrad

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Topic
Artist and audience

Author

Joseph Conrad
Source
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. London: Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

Another quote about Taking risks

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

The Painted Drum

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Topic
Vulnerability Taking risks

Author

Louise Erdrich
Source
The Painted Drum
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
2005 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum. Harper, 2005.