Musa Quotes
More Musa Quotes
Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.
william powell— The fictitious bananadine recipe, from chapter one, "Drugs"
Nô mais, Musa, nô mais, que a Lira tenho Destemperada e a voz enrouquecida, E não do canto, mas de ver que venho Cantar a gente surda e endurecida. O favor com que mais se acende o engenho Não no dá a pátria, não, que está metida No gosto da cobiça e na rudeza D?a austera, apagada e vil tristeza.
luís de camões— No more, my Muse! no more, for now my Lyre
untuned lies, and hoarse my voice of Song;
not that of singing tire I, but I tire
singing for surd and horny-hearted throng.
Favours which Poet-fancy mostly fire
our Land gives not, ah, no! 'tis plunged too long
in lust of lucre, whelmed in rudest folly
of vile, austere and vulgar melancholy.Canto X, st. 145 (translated by Richard Francis Burton).
Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui, præter laudem nullius avaris. . .
horace— The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise.Line 323.
The seed of Sufism sown in the time of Adam , germed in the time of Nuh , budded in the time of Ibrahim , began to develop in the time of Musa , reached maturity in the time of Christ , produced pure wine in the time of Muhammad .
— Shyak Shihabuddin Suhrawardi, as quoted in Sufism and Bakhti : A Comparative Study (2004), p. 4
Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui, præter laudem nullius avaris. . .
— The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise.
— Line 323.
