And do not pity C. Q. One had to choose between him and H. H., and one wanted H. H. to exist at least a couple of months longer, s...o as to have him make you live in the minds of later generations. I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sad men made angels of the sun, and of The moon they made their own attendant ghosts,... Which led them back to angels, after death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not known precisely where angels dwell--whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we... should be informed of their abode.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art... mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »