Source: The Odyssey
The Masque of Balliol http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2735.html (1880)
“I've never written for a fasting man;
A taste of wine is good before my verse.
But sleep is better than a little wine,
For when sleeping one thinks my songs are dreams.”
Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis<br/>legerit, hic sapiet.<br/>Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista<br/>somnia missa sibi.
Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis
legerit, hic sapiet.
Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista
somnia missa sibi.
"De Bissula", line 13; translation from Harold Isbell (trans.) The Last Poets of Imperial Rome (1971) p. 48.
“Prosperity is like wine, which goes to the head, and makes man forget his Creator.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“When a Man's exhausted, wine will build his strength.”
VI. 261 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”
Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"The Dreamers"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 23
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
