Gustav Aschenbach was the writer who spoke for all those who work on the brink of exhaustion, who labor and are heavy-laden, who a...re worn out already but still stand upright, all those moralists of achievement who are slight of stature and scanty of resources, but who yet, by some ecstasy of the will and by wise husbandry, manage at least for a time to force their work into a semblance of greatness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking, But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,... Conceiving words, As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence, And out of their droning sibilants makes A serenade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: that is his love of man." And most recently I heard him say this: "God is ...dead; God died of his pity for man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Speak the speech ... trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it ... I had as lief the town crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not... saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the ac...tor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do ...not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure -the likeness of male or female...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was v...ery great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »