Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.
Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.
The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.
Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.