“And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.”
Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
"Les colchiques" (The Saffrons), line 7; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 35.
Alcools (1912)
“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues
Time Magazine, Who Needs Breasts, Anyway? http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001832-1,00.html, Feb. 18, 2002. Retrieved February 1, 2007.
“If you persevere in your rancor, you do nothing but keep feeding yourself on poison.”
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Context: Blind ignorance misleads us thus and delights with the results of lascivious joys. Because it does not know the true light. Because it does not know what is the true light. Vain splendour takes from us the power of being.... behold! for its vain splendour we go into the fire, thus blind ignorance does mislead us. That is, blind ignorance so misleads us that... O! wretched mortals, open your eyes.
Source: Soon I Will Be Invincible (2007), Ch. 3: Riddle Me This
“I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
