“I have learned one thing: not to look down
Too much upon the damned.”
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
Ovid in the Third Reich
Poetry
Sam Slick, in Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented, Volumen 1 https://archive.org/details/samslickswisesaw00haliuoft (1853), p. 185, Hurst and Blackett.
“I have learned one thing: not to look down
Too much upon the damned.”
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
Ovid in the Third Reich
Poetry
“This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.”
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
A Morir [To Die]
Chris Rea (1951) English singer-songwriter
"The Road to Hell (Part 2)"
Song lyrics, The Road to Hell (1989)
Khalil Gibran book Jesus, The Son of Man
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled. And He said again: "All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself."
And then He walked away.
But no other man ever walked the way He walked. Was it a breath born in my garden that moved to the east? Or was it a storm that would shake all things to their foundations?
I knew not, but on that day the sunset of His eyes slew the dragon in me, and I became a woman, I became Miriam, Miriam of Mijdel.
Mary Magdalen: On Meeting Jesus For The First Time
“Come on, Amelia. We are not really British. We do not have to look down our noses at honest labor.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 18, “Festive Days on the Slopes of Vesuvius” (p. 285)
“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”
John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book I. Preparation and Departure, Lines 547–549 (tr. R. C. Seaton)