"Shady, shady the wood in front of the Hall"
Translated by Arthur Waley
Context: My little children are playing at my side,
Learning to talk, they babble unformed sounds.
These things have made me happy again
And I forget my lost cap of office.
Distant, distant I gaze at the white clouds:
With a deep yearning I think of the Sages of Antiquity.
“Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the wat'ry glade.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 1 <br class="br"> Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
“The most distant mountains, like himself, just stood there and gazed.”
Sten Nadolny book The Discovery of Slowness
p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)
Joyce Carol Oates book Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Source: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
“I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars.”
Don DeLillo book End Zone
Source: End Zone (1972), Ch. 16
Context: I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars. Each side agrees to use clean bombs. And each side agrees to limit the amount of megatons he uses. In other words, we'll get together with them beforehand and there'll be an agreement that if the issue can't be settled, whatever the issue might be, then let's make sure we keep our war as relatively clean as possible.
Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863–1908) British photographer
Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Perspective of clouds, p. 100
“You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“A nomad I will remain for life,
in love with distant and uncharted places.”
Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904) Swiss explorer and author
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Stanza 60, lines 1–4 (tr. William Julius Mickle)-->
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto V
