
“Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 218.
"Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems (1957)
“Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 218.
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10202/pg10202.html (1896).
Cyn rheitied i mi brydu
Ag i tithau bregethu,
A chyn iawned ym glera
Ag I tithau gardota.
Pand englynion ac odlau
Yw'r hymnau a'r segwensiau?
A chywyddau i Dduw lwyd
Yw sallwyr Dafydd Broffwyd.
"Y Bardd a'r Brawd Llwyd" (The Poet and the Grey Brother), line 53; translation from Dafydd ap Gwilym (trans. Nigel Heseltine) Twenty-Five Poems (Banbury: The Piers Press, 1968) p. 42.
Commentary on the Psalms http://dhspriory.org/thomas/english/PsalmsAquinas/ThoPs0.htm , Introduction
“My attendants are Honour and Praise, Renown and Glory with joyful countenance, and Victory with snow-white wings like mine.”
Mecum Honor ac Laudes et laeto Gloria vultu
et Decus ac niveis Victoria concolor alis.
Book XV, lines 98–99; spoken by Virtue.
Punica
“My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.”
Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.
I, 4.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“I want to make a poem of my life.”
As quoted by Mishima's biographer, Henry Scott-Stokes in the documentary Yukio Mishima : Samurai Writer (1985)
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 2: Alexander Archipelago and the Home I Found in Alaska
1910s