January 2011
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“Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the...”
– Ronald Reagan
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“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they...”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“A promise must never be broken.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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“Where other animals walk on all fours and look to the ground, man was given a...”
– Ovid, Metamorphoses
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“So Man came into the world. Maybe the great artificer made him of seed divine in...”
– Ovid, Metamorphoses
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“Beauty will save the world.”
– Dostoevsky
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“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
– Alfred Tennyson
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
– Victor Kiam
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James
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“We live in the world when we love it.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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“I’ll help as I can.”
– Aeneid, Vergil
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For other peoples will, I do not doubt, still cast their bronze to breathe with softer features, or draw out of the marble living lines, plead causes better, trace the ways of heaven with wands and tell the rising constellations’ but yours will be the rulership of nations, remember, Roman, these will be your arts: to teach the ways of peace to those your conquer, to spare defeated peoples,...
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“What is more gentle than a wind in summer?”
– Keats, Sleep and Poetry
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“Each day provides its own gifts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need...”
– Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
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“She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, for ever wilt thou love, and...”
– Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
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At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth is capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older then humanity,...
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“Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave thy song.”
– Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
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“Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!”
– Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
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“But when I am consumèd in the fire, give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my...”
– Keats, On Sitting Down to Read ‘King Lear’ Once Again
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“Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light”
– Keats, To Homer
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Rebel with a Cause
Prior to today, I wanted to be an English major. So, today I sat in my required English class and, with hopeful anticipation and jitters, read the syllabus:
(actual photo I took)
OH. Not only is that the motto of the English department at Columbia, but this was actually published by a Professor at UPenn in a literary journal, PMLA.
I’m sorry if people feel that way- but I wholeheartedly...
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