“Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!
Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?
All things are alive in your sacred walls
Eternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.”
Elegy 1
Roman Elegies (1789)
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Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?
All thing…" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
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