When I recalled how knowledge of Latin had previously decayed throughout England, and yet many could still read things written in English, I then began, amidst the various and multifarious afflictions of this kingdom, to translate into English the book which in Latin is called Pastoralis, in English "Shepherd-book", sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense.
Source: Preface to his translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, p. 126
“The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) British-American anthropologist
Source: Man: His first Million Years, (1957); this quote begins the penultimate chapter of Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
“Eternity is a glorious word but eternity is ice.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Eternity and Eternity,” p. 32
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“And yet I strove — and I was fire
And ice — and fire and ice were one
In one vast hunger of desire.”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
Context: p>The iron ice stung like a goad,
Slashing the torn shoes from my feet,
And all the air was bitter sleet. And all the land was cramped with snow,
Steel-strong and fierce and glimmering wan,
Like pale plains of obsidian.
— And yet I strove — and I was fire
And ice — and fire and ice were one
In one vast hunger of desire.</p
“He lives.
I breathe.
I want. Him. Always.
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
-Mac”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) Norwegian politician
Lisbeth of Jarnfjeld (1930), p. 52
Context: Lisbeth was his — she was his... the words became a beautiful and tender hymn glorifying a love which triumphed over all worldly vicissitudes. The hymn resounded over all the plains, over the ice and snows. In the name of Christ Jesus, he raised the chalice to Bjorn's mouth. In the name of Christ Jesus!
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Something, someone — help them.
"It's me."
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
