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Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.
e. e. cummings— "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, Early Poems, Evening Songs, No. 2.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
gilbert keith chesterton— Alarms and Discursions (1910)
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.
eric a. havelock— "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987)
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
— G. K. Chesterton[ ]
