the last sentence in "The God of This World," English Eccentrics
Poetry, favorite quotations, and journal entries. My inspiration is this quotation by Loren Eiseley: "Everything in the mind is in rat's country... Nothing is lost, but it can never be again as it was. You will only find the bits and cry out because they were yourself...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Quoting Dame Edith Sitwell
"In conclusion, he condensed them all for madmen, fools, idiots, asses, O stulti, quaenam haecc est amenti? O fools, O madmen! he exclaims, insane studia, insane, labores, etc., mad endeavours, mad actions, mad, mad, mad, O seculum insipiens et infacetum, a giddy-headed age."
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