The Ancient And Modern Muses
“I have made a monument more lasting than bronze.”
Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Book III, ode xxx, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
c. 1930
Wikipedia: El Lissitzky, note [2]
1926 - 1941
“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”
Essex's Device (1595)
“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”
Fragment 384, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Those who do monumental work don't need monuments.”
After 50 years what democracy is this?
“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.”
Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 60
VI. 232–236 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“In theatres… there are the bronze vessels in which are placed in niches under the seats”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 9
Context: In theatres... there are the bronze vessels in which are placed in niches under the seats in accordance with the musical intervals on mathematical principles. These vessels are arranged with a view to musical concords or harmony, and apportioned in the compass of the fourth, the fifth, and the octave, and so on up to the double octave, in such a way that when the voice of an actor falls in unison with any of them its power is increased, and it reaches the ears of the audience with greater clearness and sweetness. Water organs too, and the other instruments which resemble them cannot be made by one who is without the principles of music.
In response to talk of demolishing Libby Prison. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War https://archive.org/download/incidentsanecdot00port/incidentsanecdot00port.pdf (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 299
1860s, Tour of Richmond (1865)
