“Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes.”
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
Act IV, scene 1, 1, line 5.
Eunuchus
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes.”
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
Act IV, scene 1, 1, line 5.
Eunuchus
“Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
To his father's house below securely bound.”
Edwin Muir (1887–1959) British poet, novelist and translator
Childhood (1983)
Su Shi (1037–1101) Chinese writer
"The West Lake, the Beauty" (《饮湖上初晴后雨》) (1073), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 200
“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
Elaine Paige (1948) English singer and actress
Regarding The Roar Of The Greasepaint - The Smell Of The Crowd
Rock and pop (2006)
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
"When the Snow Melted" http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article.php?lab=BaJin [Hua-Hsueh Ti Jih-Tzu] (1962), as translated by Tang Sheng at Words Without Borders <br class="br">Context: I felt a joy in my heart, which seemed filled with love, love for the sun, the snow, the wind and the hills, love for everything around me. It was in this mood that I walked down the snow-covered path dotted with black footprints. Further down the footprints mingled and made dirty little puddles. I picked my way over the thickest snow because I loved the crunching of snow underfoot. With the sunlight pouring down and a breeze in my face I felt that balmy spring was coming to meet me.
“Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)