What did Edmund Waller mean by: Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; ’tis but what we in our autumn do. - Edmund Waller Poet · England Copy
+ Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Music, Resistance, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Contrast, Humility, Nature, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Gods, Hate, Love, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Lifestyle, Ocean, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Edmund Waller, Art, Entertainment, Merit, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Hero, Religion, Virtue, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Heart, Loss, Restoration, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Learn, Practice, Wisdom, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. - Louise Bourgeois Sculptor · France
Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected. - Lynda Obst Film producer
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France