“When men feel happy, they think of men who love; when they feel sad they think and pray to God.”
Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet
Gli uomini quando si sentono felici pensano agli uomini che amano, quando si sentono tristi pensano e pregano Dio.
“And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.”
— John Ruskin, book Modern Painters
Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
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