Eric Rücker Eddison book The Worm Ouroboros
Ch. 3 : The Red Foliot http://www.sacred-texts.com/ring/two/two09.htm <br class="br">The Worm Ouroboros (1922)
Eric Rücker Eddison book The Worm Ouroboros
Ch. 3 : The Red Foliot http://www.sacred-texts.com/ring/two/two09.htm <br class="br">The Worm Ouroboros (1922)
“He is as loving and tender as a child, but strong and sturdy as a rock.”
Juan Ramón Jimenéz book Platero
Source: Platero and I (1917), Ch. 1 : Platero, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
Context: He is as loving and tender as a child, but strong and sturdy as a rock. When on Sundays I ride him through the lanes in the outskirts of the town, slow-moving countrymen, dressed in their Sunday clean, watch him a while, speculatively:
"He is like steel," they say.
Steel, yes. Steel and moon silver at the same time.
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer
As translated by Ejvind Haas
Siddhartha (1922)
Context: When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal, a resolution. Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddhartha has learned among the Samanas. This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer
Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) British poet
"Sonnet II" in Scribner's Monthly Vol. IX (November 1874 - April 1875), p. 359.