Quotes
Quotes - Benjamin
I'm king of the dead--and I make my throne
On a monument slab of marble cold;
And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold:
Come they from cottage or come they from hall,
Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all!
Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin--
I gather them in, I gather them in!
Flowers are Love's truest language.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old, Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold, But love--strong love, that never can decay!
Nigh to a grave that was newly made, Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Beauty and grace command the world.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
