Essex's Device (1595)
“Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.”
“Those who do monumental work don't need monuments.”
After 50 years what democracy is this?
“The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.”
Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 60
In response to talk of demolishing Libby Prison. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War https://archive.org/download/incidentsanecdot00port/incidentsanecdot00port.pdf (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 299
1860s, Tour of Richmond (1865)
Source: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 17 - 24; this was inspired by a eulogy by William Basse, On Shakespeare:
Context: Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further, to make thee a room;
Thou art a monument, without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live,
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
No. 388
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“What the masses want are monuments.”
Quoted in We need politically incorrect mayors by Victor Schukov http://westislandgazette.com/victorschukov/26987, West Island Gazette, Saturday, December 3, 2011
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
Quoted in 50 Military Leaders Who Changed the World (2007) by William Weir, p. 173
Unsourced variant: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.
“They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence.”
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 9, Last Sentences, p. 130
c. 1930
Wikipedia: El Lissitzky, note [2]
1926 - 1941
