
“Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.”
Motto
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.”
Motto
Blüthenstaub (1798)
“Every age bears its fruits, it's all in knowing how to harvest them.”
Tout âge porte ses fruits, il faut savoir les cueillir.
Raymond Radiguet: Le bal du comte d'Orgel. Paris 1924. P. 15.
“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.”
The Realms of Gold (1975; New York: Ivy Books, 1989) p. 140
“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 821–822 (tr. Christopher Collard)
“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.”
"Angelus", in Saint Peter's Square (14 December 2014) http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2014/documents/papa-francesco_angelus_20141214.html
2010s, 2014
Viel schon haben wir ertragen. Mehr noch werden wir ertragen müssen. Danken wir Gott, dass wir jung sind.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
“Thanks to our brave allies: you gallant Russian bear, you British everywhere.”
Introduction to his World War II performances.
Obituary, The Economist, August 2, 2003 http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-106195810.html