“What's old collapses, times change,
And new life blossoms in the ruins.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act IV, sc. ii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“What's old collapses, times change,
And new life blossoms in the ruins.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act IV, sc. ii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745) writer
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 1–4
“To rise by others' fall
I deem a losing gain;
All states with others' ruins built
To ruin run amain.”
Robert Southwell (1561–1595) English Jesuit
Source: Content and Rich, Line 57; p. 59.
“All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
" The Vision of Sin http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/vs.htm", sec. 4 (1842)
“What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!”
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Canto I, line 1.
Source: The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“A Nemean steed in terror of the fight bears the hero from the citadel of Pallas, and fills the fields with the huge flying shadow, and the long trail of dust rises upon the plain.”
Illum Palladia sonipes Nemeaeus ab arce
devehit arma pavens umbraque inmane volanti
implet agros longoque attollit pulvere campum.
Source: Thebaid, Book IV, Line 136 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
William Baziotes (1912–1963) American painter
in a letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 6 November, 1955; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, 2006, p. 34
Baziotes' quote is referring to his painting 'Pompeii', Baziotes painted in 1955
1950s