Tuesday, December 30, 2003
“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean, the world has grown gray from thy breath;
We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day;
But love grows bitter with treason and laurel outlives May.
Sleep, shall we sleep after all? For the world is not sweet in the end.;
For the old faiths loosen and fall, the new years ruin and rend.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909), English poet, critic, dramatist and letter writer: “Hymn to Proserpine”, 1866.
“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
- Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918), American historian and memoirist: “The Education of Henry Adams”, 1907.
“Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the for ever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.”
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930), English writer, poet and critic: “Phoenix”, 1936.
“Sex is something I really don’t understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.”
- J. D. Salinger (b. 1919), American writer: “Catcher in the Rye”, 1951.
We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day;
But love grows bitter with treason and laurel outlives May.
Sleep, shall we sleep after all? For the world is not sweet in the end.;
For the old faiths loosen and fall, the new years ruin and rend.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909), English poet, critic, dramatist and letter writer: “Hymn to Proserpine”, 1866.
“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
- Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918), American historian and memoirist: “The Education of Henry Adams”, 1907.
“Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the for ever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.”
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930), English writer, poet and critic: “Phoenix”, 1936.
“Sex is something I really don’t understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.”
- J. D. Salinger (b. 1919), American writer: “Catcher in the Rye”, 1951.
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