Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after...
Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird [......
You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me. But if you ever deliberately provoke me, in a way trying to hurt me, I'm so worried that you will die, or injured with heart full of revenge. The kind of revenge which you will never ...
Religious Jews believe that all things come from God, as God owns everything. The Tanakh says, “The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up” (NLT, 1 Samuel 2:7). “The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and...
That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief and then one by one, we stood tall and came together and began to sing of life and love and all...
The full measure of a culture embraces both the actions of a people and the quality of their aspirations, the nature of the metaphors that propel their lives. And no description of a people can be complete without reference to the character of their ...
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth.
When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Lord, she really hoped that was his penis and that Greek gods didn’t pad their briefs.
Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
