Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang
Tag: 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 AustenTag: 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 PayneTag: 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 MarxTag: 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 AustenTag: 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.
Tag: 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)
Tag: classics
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: inspirational classics
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