„Fear had long since taken root
In every breast, and now these crushed its fruit,
The ripe hate, like a wine“
Book the First
Sordello (1840)
Kontext: But, gathering in its ancient market-place,
Talked group with restless group; and not a face
But wrath made livid, for among them were
Death's staunch purveyors, such as have in care
To feast him. Fear had long since taken root
In every breast, and now these crushed its fruit,
The ripe hate, like a wine: to note the way
It worked while each grew drunk! men grave and grey
Stood, with shut eyelids, rocking to and fro.
Letting the silent luxury trickle slow
About the hollows where a heart should be;
But the young gulped with a delirious glee
Some foretaste of their first debauch in blood
At the fierce news
Robert Browning6
anglický básnik a dramatik viktoriánskej éry 1812 - 1889Podobné citáty
— Arnold Tustin British engineer 1899 - 1994
Zdroj: The Mechanism of Economic Systems (1953), p. v
„The State has its root in time, and will ripe and rot in time.“
— Henrik Ibsen Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828 - 1906
Letter to Georg Brandes (17 February 1871), as translated in Henrik Ibsen : Björnstjerne Björnson. Critical Studies (1899) by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Variant translation: The quality of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands still in the midst of the struggle and says: "I have it," merely shows by so doing that he has lost it. Now this very contentedness in the possession of a dead liberty is a characteristic of the so-called state; and it is worthless.
As translated in Ibsen : The Man, His Art & His Significance (1907) by Haldane Macfall, p. 238
Variant translation: Neither moral concepts nor art forms can expect to live forever. How much are we obliged to hold on to? Who can guarantee that 2 plus 2 don't add up to 5 on Jupiter?
Kontext: He who possesses liberty otherwise than as an aspiration possesses it soulless, dead. One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands still in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by so doing that he has just lost it. Now this very contentedness in the possession of a dead liberty is characteristic of the so-called State, and, as I have said, it is not a good characteristic. No doubt the franchise, self-taxation, etc., are benefits — but to whom? To the citizen, not to the individual. Now, reason does not imperatively demand that the individual should be a citizen. Far from it. The State is the curse of the individual. With what is Prussia's political strength bought? With the absorption of the individual in the political and geographical idea. The waiter is the best soldier. And on the other hand, take the Jewish people, the aristocracy of the human race — how is it they have kept their place apart, their poetical halo, amid surroundings of coarse cruelty? By having no State to burden them. Had they remained in Palestine, they would long ago have lost their individuality in the process of their State's construction, like all other nations. Away with the State! I will take part in that revolution. Undermine the whole conception of a State, declare free choice and spiritual kinship to be the only all-important conditions of any union, and you will have the commencement of a liberty that is worth something. Changes in forms of government are pettifogging affairs — a degree less or a degree more, mere foolishness. The State has its root in time, and will ripe and rot in time. Greater things than it will fall — religion, for example. Neither moral conceptions nor art-forms have an eternity before them. How much are we really in duty bound to pin our faith to? Who will guarantee me that on Jupiter two and two do not make five?
— Willie Dixon American blues musician 1915 - 1992
I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 4.
— Tanith Lee, kniha Vazkor, Son of Vazkor
Book One, Part I “The Krarl”, Chapter 4 (p. 31)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
— Samuel Butler (poet) poet and satirist 1612 - 1680
Canto II, line 29
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
— Evelyn Waugh British writer 1903 - 1966
Zdroj: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase
Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.“
— William Cullen Bryant American romantic poet and journalist 1794 - 1878
Mutation. A Sonnet
„I like your smile but I ain't your type, Don't shake the tree when the fruit ain't ripe“
— Robert Hunter American musician 1941 - 2019
"Loose Lucy"
Song lyrics, (1974)
— George Washington Carver botanist 1864 - 1943
Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 107
— Anne Murray Canadian singer 1945
k.d. lang, Canadian singer
regarding the rumours that her album "Ingenue" might be about Anne Murray, as quoted in "HANGING WITH K. D. LANG", MTV.com, as reported by ATN Toronto correspondent (and Toronto Star staff writer) Peter Howell, 18 October 1995 http://www.mtv.com/news/504788/hanging-with-k-d-lang/
„Grape on the vine… why not be crushed to make wine?“
Son of a Widow.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
„Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."
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— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
Zdroj: The Complete Poems
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
— Utah Phillips American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet 1935 - 2008
Of Mentors and Intellectuals http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/05/29/weir, by Rob Weir (May 29, 2008)
„Let them hate, so long as they fear.“
Oderint dum metuant.
— Lucius Accius Roman poet and scholar -170 - -84 pred n. l.
From Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4. (16 BC)
„Let them hate us as long as they fear us.“
— Caligula 3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty 12 - 41