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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1756583 | When we wants to do something but cannot, that is when we think. When our consciousness awakes up and stretches its arms. That is when we imagine, and plan, and dream about the undone thing. | Adam Rex | ||
| 0bad750 | One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. "Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise." "Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your vertue.. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| a56b17b | one louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence: A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre | Edmund Spenser | ||
| ad09535 | With golden giftes and many a guilefull word | gold greed temptation words | Edmund Spenser | |
| 673567d | Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde, All as I were through the body gryde. My ragged rontes all shiver and shake, As doen high Towers in an earthquake: They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes, Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| be07f2a | he gave an account of the Spenserian world that championed its ethical attitudes as well as their fairy-tale terms, with a rich joy in the defeat of dragons, giants, sorcerers, and sorceresses by the forces of virtue; it was a world he could inhabit and believe in as one inhabits and believes a dream of one's own; its knights, dwarfs, and ladies were real to him...he rejoiced as much in the ugliness of the giants and in the beauty of the la.. | edmund-spenser the-faerie-queene | Jocelyn Gibb | |
| 1f17234 | Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone, Whom if ye please, I care for other none. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| b46fc08 | Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| 9dee178 | The poet Archibald MacLeish, then an Assistant Secretary of State, spoke critically of what he saw in the postwar world: "As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief . . . without moral purpose or human interest. . . ." | poet wealth | Howard Zinn | |
| 7632189 | At Ghent the wind rose. There was a smell of rain and a heavy drag Of wind in the hedges but not as the wind blows | Archibald MacLeish | ||
| 8d58c0b | Cher Monsieur Waters, Je recois votre courrier electronique en date du 14 avril dernier et suis comme il se doit impressionne par la complexite shakespearienne de votre drame. Chaque personnage dans votre histoire a une harmatia en beton. La sienne : etre trop malade. La votre : etre trop bien portant. Fut-ce le contraire, vos etoiles n'auraient pas ete aussi contrariees, mais c'est dans la natures des etoiles d'etre contrariees. A ce propo.. | John Green | ||
| 729190e | If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd.... | logical-thinking religion the-problem-of-evil | Archibald MacLeish | |
| 763ad14 | Three portraits by Hans Holbein have for generations dictated the imagery of the epoch. The first shows King Henry VIII in all his swollen arrogance and finery. The second gives us Sir Thomas More, the ascetic scholar who seems willing to lay his life on a matter of principle. The third captures King Henry's enforcer Sir Thomas Cromwell, a sallow and saturnine fellow calloused by the exercise of worldly power. The genius of Mantel's prose l.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 6475cb1 | FAUST: Ah, Faust, hai solo un'ora di vita, poi sarai dannato per sempre. Fermatevi sfere del cielo che eternamente ruotate, che il tempo finisca e mezzanotte non venga mai. Occhio lieto della natura, sorgi, sorgi di nuovo e fai un giorno eterno, o fai che un'ora duri un anno, un mese, una settimana, un giorno, che Faust possa pentirsi e salvare l'anima. "O lente lente currite noctis equi". Le stelle ruotano, il tempo corre, l'orologio suone.. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 3c7aebd | USUMCASANE: To be a king, is half to be a god. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| eaca213 | One of the towering figures of the age of Enlightenment was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, known to this day in German-speaking lands as the poet of princes and prince of poets. Unlike Voltaire, he openly practiced esoteric disciplines, particularly alchemy. He wrote a famous verse about the Cathars, which translated says: "There were those who knew the Father. What became of them? Oh, they took them and burned them!" Goethe's chief work, of c.. | Stephan A. Hoeller | ||
| d9f26e5 | Some swore he was a maid in man's attire, For in his looks were all that men desire, A pleasant smiling cheeke, a speaking eye, A brow for loveto banquet roiallye, And such as knew he was a man would say, Leander, thou art made for amorous play: Why art thou not in love and lov'd of all? | Deborah Harkness | ||
| 9d40041 | Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou Or any man that breathes on earth. | drama love | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 8e3c6ce | Shakespeare was not even able to perform a function that we consider today as perfectly normal and ordinary a function as reading itself. He could not, as the saying goes, "look something up." Indeed the very phrase--when it is used in the sense of "searching for something in a dictionary or encyclopedia or other book of reference"--simply did not exist. It does not appear in the English language, in fact, until as late as 1692, when an Oxf.. | Simon Winchester | ||
| bc6e35b | Who can make sense of the roles we play? If I could draw any conclusion about the long, depressing slog of human progress, it's the possibility that unseen elements lie just on the other side of the physical universe and that somehow we're actors on the stage of the Globe, right across the Thames from a place called Pissing Alley, whether William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe are aware of our presence or not. | James Lee Burke | ||
| ce743ef | Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 7b09009 | profligacy | James Lee Burke | ||
| ced04af | People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 44bf514 | There are not many places left in the United States where people can get off the computer, stop filing tax returns, and in effect become invisible. The rain forests in the Cascades and parts of West Montana come to mind, and perhaps the 'Glades still offer hope to those who wish to resign from modern times. The other place is the Atchafalaya Basin. | James Lee Burke | ||
| ec64d5e | A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5acf12f | The human spirit is frail. People believe whatever they need to believe. I feel sorry for all of them. | James Lee Burke | ||
| dacdeab | Cruelty and sentimentality are almost always companion characteristics in an individual but never cruelty and love. | James Lee Burke | ||
| d4b8eb4 | When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 42a3249 | documented in a security file was of no concern to him. The fact that a man like Joe Tex could have access to it | James Lee Burke | ||
| f85cb92 | I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 2131df8 | As a southerner I had been brought up to believe that through conditioning and experience you could accept with some measure of tranquility any of the flaws in the human situation. But death is one flaw that always lands like a fist in the center of the forehead. No matter how many times you see it, or smell its gray rotting odor, or come close to buying it yourself, each time is always like the first. No amount of earlier experience prepar.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 6bb1814 | Hope was the light that allowed man to prevail in the worst of circumstances. But it also could become the narcotic of the self-deluded and the naive. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 87a63e2 | You pull on dat 'gator's tail, he gonna clean your kneecaps, him. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 71f97b9 | As with all megalomaniacs, he had no handles. He was the type of man the Spanish call sin dios, sin verguenza, without God or shame. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 802a02b | The reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is they think 'conspiracy' means everybody's on the same program. That's not how it works. Everybody's got a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebody's wife. | conspiracy-theories murder socrates | James Lee Burke | |
| 6640d13 | Then I saw the consuming nature of her fear, her willingness to believe that exploitative charlatans could change her fate or really cared what happened to her, the dread and angst that congealed like a cold vapor around her heart when she awoke each morning, one day closer to the injection table at Angola. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 26981a4 | Thinking at night isn't good for anybody. | James Lee Burke | ||
| b7ca4ce | You know what I think, Sarah? I think that when God made all those animals, He was practicing. He made them all different shapes and sizes, and He just kept on practicing. For when He made man. But He had to practice a lot, first. That's why the animals are all so different-looking. What do you think?" 'Sometimes,' Sarah said, 'I think He didn't practice enough." | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| ba5b000 | I do not know what will be the end of it. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 0f7f432 | I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but not at the cost of this madman, Hitler. Your grandpa can't be blamed for loving his old Germany. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| fbb0a51 | Haven't my past sermons taught you anything?" "Yes," Emilie threw at him, "that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren't, who Him, you toss away like garbage." | prayer | Ann Rinaldi | |
| c194500 | I earn my own respect," I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else." | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 6bea6d2 | So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane? Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand? | life sanity | Ann Rinaldi | |
| 68e5520 | President Theodore Roosevelt offered a definition of success that has stood the test of time. "Far and away the best prize that life offers," he said, "is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." | William C. Taylor |