requiem quotes

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

-William Dunbar
  The Opening of the Field,'A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar'.

That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

- (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
  Art-nonsense and Other Essays,'Slavery and Freedom'.

To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor spriteliness, but contempt of shame, and indifference to truth are absolutely necessary.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Of journalistic reporting. In The Idler, no.31,11 Nov.