Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coal...s thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd never set foot in San Francisco. Of all the Sodoms and Gomorrahs in our modern world, it is the worst. There are not 10 righte...ous (and courageous) men there. It needs another quake, another whiff of fire--and--more than all else--a steady trade wind of grapeshot.... That moral penal colony of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To anyone who still feels that there must be an identity of logical form between language and reality, I can only plead that the c...onception of language as a mirror of reality is radically mistaken. We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut knows that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience. But in order to do so, it is enough that it should be apt for the expression of everything that is or might be the case. To be content with less would be to be satisfied to be inarticulate; to ask for more is to desire the impossible. No roads lead from grammar to metaphysics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age:... Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at the ...same time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »