Thus It Is, 1989, p. 1
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings, Thus It Is
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 388.
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 33
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
PENN Address (2004)
Context: There's a truly great Irish poet. His name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and there's a line in that poem that never leaves my mind, it says: "If you want to serve the age, betray it." What does that mean, to betray the age?
Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, it's foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.
Pharaoh, Book X, line 688
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Context: Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns;
it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies,
they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm,
the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air.
I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song,
for I know well that only words, that words alone,
like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.
Source: The Way to Life: Sermons (1862), P. 107 (The Unchangeable Word).
