
“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
“Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare,
However pure the breast, to lay it bare?”
Title poem
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound.”
Si operam medicantis exspectas, oportet vulnus detegas.
Prose IV, line 1; translation by W.V. Cooper
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book I
Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. IX and 235 in the 1960 Dover edition; p. 183 in the 2008 edition