Meander Quotes
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As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."
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More Meander Quotes
The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.
robert montgomery— The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders or can possibly meander level with the fount. In the next place, if streams did meander level with their founts, no two motions can be less like each other than that of meandering level and that of mounting upwards", Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Review of Montgomery's Poems (Eleventh Edition), Edinburgh Review, (April, 1830). These lines were omitted in the subsequent edition of the poem.
I think you will like them, when you shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— 1777 Sir Benjamin Backbite, of his love elegies to Maria. The School for Scandal, act1, sc.1.
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Act I, sc. i.
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradations and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture
max beckmann— In: a letter to his first wife Minna, from the front, first World war, 1915; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 5
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777), Act I, scene 1.
The soul, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount.
robert montgomery— Robert Montgomery, Omnipresence of the Deity, Part I. Ridiculed by Macaulay as "the worst similitude in the world." Omitted in later editions.
As meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."
Plutarch— Platonic Questions, i.
