People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the p...eople of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air... Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London UnrealLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now you rise, a city from the sea,... born long before Alexandria was, straightway from God you have come into your redeeming skin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the ha...nds of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »