Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder,
die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält.
Abend (Evening) (as translated by Cliff Crego)
Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images) (1902)
Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder, die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält.
Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images) (1902)
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
Source: Fugitive Pieces
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)
Book I, ch. 25
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
“Our characters change as world eras change, as our features change, slowly from day to day.”
Arthur's commentary
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Our characters change as world eras change, as our features change, slowly from day to day. Nothing is sudden in this world. Inch hy inch; drop by drop; line by line. Even when great convulsions shatter down whole nations, cities, monarchies, systems, human fortunes, still they are but the finish, the last act of the same long preparing, slowly devouring change, in which the tide of human affairs for ever ebbs and flows, without haste, and without rest.
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: In the change of years, in the coil of things,
In the clamour and rumour of life to be,
We, drinking love at the furthest springs,
Covered with love as a covering tree,
We had grown as gods, as the gods above,
Filled from the heart to the lips with love,
Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings,
O love, my love, had you loved but me!
