“The day in his hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The night in her silence,
The stars in their calm.”
Matthew Arnold book Empedocles on Etna
Act II
Empedocles on Etna (1852)
Poem The Leafless Garden; Quoted in website devoted to the poet, 2013 http://www.mehdiakhavansales.com/the-leafless-garden/
“The day in his hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The night in her silence,
The stars in their calm.”
Matthew Arnold book Empedocles on Etna
Act II
Empedocles on Etna (1852)
Kid Cudi (1984) American rapper, singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor from Ohio
-Day 'n' Night
Music
“out of the mountain of his soul
comes a keen pure silence”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
19
XAIPE (1950)
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
Par une de ces journées sombres qui attristent la fin de l'année, et que rend encore plus mélancoliques le souffle glacé du vent du Nord, écoutez, en lisant Ossian, la fantastique harmonie d'une harpe éolienne balancée au sommet d'un arbre dépouillé de verdure, et vous pourrez éprouver un sentiment profond de tristesse, un désir vague et infini d'une autre existence, un dégoût immense de celle-ci. <br class="br">Hector Berlioz, Mémoires, ch. 39 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/HBM39.htm; Eleanor Holmes, Rachel Holmes and Ernest Newman (trans.) Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865 (New York: Dover, 1966) pp. 156-7. <br class="br">Criticism
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
Women Saints of East and West
“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Hymn 66, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II.
Attributed from postum publications, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)