Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.
Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.
Hello, Mary.' It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.
Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.
Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.
Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.
