What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to A...
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be n...
Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.
Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?''I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings...
Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,
The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.
And love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him th...
Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful? he said. It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever...
Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to...
They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, a...
At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or w...
I wish I had done everything on earth with you
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity...
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
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