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
+ Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Discretion, Poets, Praise, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Edmund Waller, Blood, Flesh, Vices, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Decay, Light, Soul, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Rage, Ruin, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Conversation, Light, Perception, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. Feraz Zeid, July 25, 2023December 12, 2023, Edmund Waller, Strength, Weakness, 0 - Edmund Waller Poet · England
+ Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Waller, Freedom, Happy, Innocence, 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
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
