„A breath upon her hand
Muted the night.
She turned —
A cymbal crashed,
Amid roaring horns.“
— Wallace Stevens American poet 1879 - 1955
Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915)
„It is in the world of words, amid the dull but perhaps necessary detail of every-day events—that quotations come with a warmth and a welcome upon memory, and like Milton's fish, "Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold." …In the dry and laboring essay, amid the windings of many words and the accumulation of antecedents, we hail their sudden and familiar appearances as patches of Nature's green to repose on by the way; their "dulcet and harmonious breath" animates a train of associations that dwell in the most sylvan haunts of emotion and sentiment; to their fountains of "loosened silver" we turn for a refreshing and a pleasant abstraction.“
"Quotations".
Sketches from Life (1846)
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— William H. McNeill Canadian historian 1917 - 2016
Quelle: Keeping Together in Time (1995), Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies.
— Stephen Jay Gould, buch Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
"Chance Riches", p. 342
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983)
— Randolph Sinks Foster American bishop 1820 - 1903
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 305.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Quelle: Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way
— Torquato Tasso, Aminta
Amor servo de l'oro, è il maggior mostro,
Et il più abominabile, e il più sozzo,
Che produca la terra, o 'l mar frà l'onde.
Act II, scene i.
Aminta (1573)
„The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted.“
— Carl Van Doren American biographer 1885 - 1950
As quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1941) by Alice Mary Smyth, p. vii
Kontext: The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
— Joseph Conrad, buch Under Western Eyes
Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Kontext: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
— Paul Gauguin French Post-Impressionist artist 1848 - 1903
Quelle: 1870s - 1880s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), pp. 5 & 22: Gauguin is advising a fellow painter, 1885
„Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.“
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, buch Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
— Auguste Rodin French sculptor 1840 - 1917
RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911
— Petra Němcová Czech fashion model 1979
Explaining why she became vegan, spotted helping out at an OCRF Benefit, as quoted in "Petra Nemcova Goes Vegan For The Fish", in Celebrity-Gossip.net (31 July 2007) http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrities/hollywood/petra-nemcova-goes-vegan-for-the-fish-201498#blog.
„The golden sun rose from the silver wave,
And with his beams enamelled every green.“
— Edward Fairfax English translator 1580 - 1635
Book I, stanza 35
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
— Kathy Acker, buch Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
