“Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.”
John James Ingalls (1833–1900) American politician
Eulogy on Benjamin Hill, United States Senate, Jan. 23, 1882.
“… time was not passing… it was turning in a circle…”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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“Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
This adage had previously appeared, identically worded, in Coleridge's The Statesman's Manual (1816)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement
describing Boccioni
In the 'Preface' of Boccioni's show at Ca' Pesaro, July 1910; as quoted in Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, by Christine Poggi, Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 107
1900's
W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1535/ <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) <br class="br">Context: Opinion is not worth a rush;<br>In this altar-piece the knight,<br>Who grips his long spear so to push<br>That dragon through the fading light,<br>Loved the lady; and it’s plain<br>The half-dead dragon was her thought,<br>That every morning rose again<br>And dug its claws and shrieked and fought.<br>Could the impossible come to pass<br>She would have time to turn her eyes,<br>Her lover thought, upon the glass<br>And on the instant would grow wise.
