Aeschylus Quotes

My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

robert f. kennedy

— Inscribed on the Robert F. Kennedy gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Aeschylus is not impersonal but transpersonal, a believer in fate and moral responsibility at the same time .

— Rollo May, in Love and Will (1969), p. 136

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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108) Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. (tr. Dillon 1995, Perseus )

— Frogs, line 1058-1059

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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108) Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. (tr. Dillon 1995, Perseus )

Aristophanes

— Frogs, line 1058-1059

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