If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and ...the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panem... et Circen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory,... The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire.... This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finally, within a huge and sombre mass of things, A blackened people, living and dying in silence.... (Enfin, dans un amas de choses, sombre, immense, Un peuple noir, vivant et mourant en silence.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »