forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
–
Virgil,
Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6
forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
–
Virgil,
Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6
As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.
–
Ursula K. Le Guin,
Lavinia
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
–
W.H. Auden,
The Dyer’s Hand