Lycidas Quotes

#1. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.

Robert Aris Willmott

#2. Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'

Susan Stewart

#3. You're a good guy, Thorne." She paused. "Well, you have your moments.

Marissa Meyer

#4. If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong ... you'll know forever.

Brad Stine

#5. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Henri Nouwen

#7. Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego's display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as "spiritual" people.

Chogyam Trungpa

#8. They assert that their program is purely peaceful ... We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

Barack Obama

#9. If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'

Brina Palencia

#11. Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company

Christopher Bailey