“He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the greed of gold and all unloveliness.”
Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner (1933)
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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955Related quotes
“The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”
John James Ingalls (1833–1900) American politician
Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675) The ninth Guru of Sikhism
Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sorath 633 (Translated by Gopal Singh), Tegh Bahadur (Translated by Gopal Singh) (2005). Mahalla nawan: compositions of Guru Tegh Bahādur-the ninth guru (from Sri Guru Granth Sahib): Bāṇī Gurū Tega Bahādara. Allied Publishers. pp. xxviii–xxxiii, 15–27. ISBN 978-81-7764-897-3.
“The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet's dream.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, st. 4 (1805).
“He had gained all the power he had dreamed of then—and had not known a moment of peace since.”
Glen Cook book She Is the Darkness
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 5 (p. 288)
Robert Owen (1771–1858) Welsh social reformer
3rd Part
The Book of the New Moral World (1836-1844)
Context: It is the interest of the individual and of all society, that he should be made, at the earliest period, to understand his own construction, the proper use of its parts, and how to keep them at all times in a state of health; and especially that he should be taught to observe the varied effects of different kinds of food, and different quantities, upon his own constitution. He should be taught the general and individual laws of health, thus early, that he may know how to prevent the approach of disease. And the knowledge of the particular diet best suited to his constitution, is one of the most essential laws of health.
