
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter III, Sec. 17
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter III, Sec. 24
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter III, Sec. 17
Of Marriage.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly,
O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm!”
Translated by Irina Zheleznova
Context: O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly,
O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm!
My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder
Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.
Love's Voice (c.1935–1939)
Context: Such fable ours! However sweet,
That earlier hope had, if fulfilled,
Been but child's pap and toothless meat
— And meaning blunt and deed unwilled,
And we but motes that dance in light
And in such light gleam like the core
Of light, but lightless, are in right
Blind dust that fouls the unswept floor
For, no: not faith by fable lives,
But from the faith the fable springs
— It never is the song that gives
Tongue life, it is the tongue that sings;
And sings the song. Then, let the act
Speak, it is the unbetrayable
Command, if music, let the fact
Make music's motion; us, the fable.
'A Poets life, Seventy Years in changing world' Macmillan, New York 1938
A Poet 's Life (1938)
Book II: On the soul; In: Aristotle (1808). Works, Vol. 4. p. 63 (412a-424b)
De Anima
Speech in Westminster Palace Hotel (23 May 1878), quoted in The Times (24 May 1878), p. 12
1870s