What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden

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Topic

Love

Author

Robert Hayden

Source

Those Winter Sundays

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hayden, Robert. "Those Winter Sundays." A Ballad of Remembrance. Paul Breman, 1962, I. 13.

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I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Topic
Nuclear weapons
Speaker
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Source
The Decison to Drop the Bomb
Medium
Film
Genre
Documentary (film)
Language
English
Time
1965 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Oppenheimer, J. Robert. Quoted in NBC White Paper: The Decision to Drop the Bomb. Narrated by Chet Huntley, directed by Fred Freed and Len Giovannitti, written by Fred Freed, 5 Jan. 1965, NBC.

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Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

Songs of Experience

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Topic
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Author

William Blake
Source
Songs of Experience
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1794 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod and the Pebble." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod & the Pebble." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.