Fletcher Allen (July 25, 1905 – August 5, 1995) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. His composition Viper's Dream has become a jazz staple.
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“All Love’s Emblems and all cry,
Ladies, if not pluckt we dye,”
—John Fletcher (1579–1625)
“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)