The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.
Thought is the measure of life.
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.
But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.
A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?
A lot of overdubs from the last couple of records had to do with me being insecure about the way my voice sounds or the way I play guitar. I would want to mask it with extra things, or keep every moment super exciting. With the newest record, I tried my best to back off, and if something wasn't interesting at every moment, or if my voice didn't sound that good, just let it go and accept it.
I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.