Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave. - Nathalia Crane

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The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

Nathalia Crane

Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.

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You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.

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In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

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The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.

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The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

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Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

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