She writes poignantly that "this trough of despair shall not, I swear, engulf me".
At the end, a lank-haired Patti Smith sang to a hushed crowd: So throw off your stupid cloak / Embrace all that you fear For joy shall conquer all despair / in my Blakean year Outside, waiting in the cold of the night and the rush for cabs, we hoped we could.
Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice.
Fidelia (1615), an elegiac epistle lamenting a lover's inconstancy, contains in later editions the famous lyric "Shall I, wasting in despair".
Brand, humming his way through the song, stopped at the last verse, " 'On the reefs of despair we shall not crash.' What does that mean?" Senator Hatch, meanwhile, was in his office, preparing for a meeting with an intelligence analyst.
Perhaps his greatest, In Darknesse Let Me Dwell, is worth quoting: "In darknesse let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,/ The roof, despair to bar all cheerful light from me./ The walls of marble black, that moisten'd still shall weep./ My music, hellish, jarring sounds to banish friendly sleep./ Thus wedded to my woes and bedded to my tomb,/ O, let me living die, til death do come".
Shall we say 3-1? 7:35pm: "as a despairing Arsenal fan can you give me a glimmer of hope regarding this year's team?" pleads Gareth Holden.
Patricia Hoffbauer and George Emilio Sanchez, the performance artists who served as masters of ceremonies, termed the making of art a protest against despair and chaos, Mr. Sanchez affirming, "We shall overcome with a step, a leap, a song and a story".
