Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang
Mots clés classics tao-te-ching chinese-literature
nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBut I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Jane AustenMots clés romance literature classics
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
Roman PayneMots clés women sleep dreams heroism classics alexander-the-great greek homer roman the-iliad the-odyssey waning-moon
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
Karl MarxMots clés history saints classics destruction ancient-greece catholic monks catholic-saints heathendom manuscripts
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly just as was wanted -- sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
Jane AustenMots clés literature satire classics
When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent -
Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed,
The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore
- he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroque master of baroque masters; this is the landing of a TRAGIC Marie de Medicis.
Yet so receptive was the English ear to sheep-Wordsworth's perverse 'Enough of Art' that it is not any of these works of supreme art, these master-sonnets of English literature, that are sold as picture postcards, with the text in lieu of the view, in the Lake District! it is those eternally, infernally sprightly Daffodils.
Mots clés criticism classics deep half-witted-sheep wordsworth
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
William ShakespeareThe thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
Mots clés classics
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale HurstonMots clés inspirational classics
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