Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted... from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow... dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: MIntroibo ad altare Dei.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This music of yours. A manifestation of the highest energy--not at all abstract, but without an object, energy in a void, in pure ...ether--where else in the universe does such a thing appear? We Germans have taken over from philosophy the expression 'in itself,' we use it every day without much idea of the metaphysical. But here you have it, such music is energy itself, yet not as idea, rather in its actuality. I call your attention to the fact that is almost the definition of God. Imitatio Dei--I am surprised it is not forbidden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices... Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »