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La Poe sie est l'expression, par le langage humain ramene e a' son rythme essentiel, du sens myste rieux des aspects de l'existence; elle doue ainsi d'authenticite notre se jour et constitue la seule ta" che spirituelle. Poetry is an expression, through human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysteriousness of existence; it endows our life with authenticity and constitutes our only spiritual task.
Ste phane Mallarme— 1884 Letter to M. Le o d'Orfer, 27 Jun.
Fhairshon had a son,Who married Noah's daughter,And nearly spoiled ta Flood,By drinking up the water.Which he would have done,I at least pelieve it,Had the mixture beenOnly half Glenlivet.
— Poem, The Massacre of the Macpherson
Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.
jimmy durante— As quoted in Low Man On A Totem Pole (1941) by Harry Allen Smith, p. 185
— Variant: Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?
Sers toi aussi bien de ton cerveau que de ta main.
jean-claude rodet— Use your brain as well as your hand.Les aliments biologiques (Lyon, Edition Camugli, 1982, ISBN 2-851-83000-7), p. 67
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
stanley spencer— As quoted in Times Thievish Progress (1970) by John Rothenstein; "ta" is a British form of "thank you."
Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà Pleurant sans cesse, Dis, qu'as-tu fait, toi que voilà De ta jeunesse?
Paul Verlaine— What have you done, you standing there
In floods of tears?
Tell me what you have done
With your young life?"Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit", line 13, from Sagesse (1880); Sorrell p. 111.
Tu m’as donné ta boue et j’en ai fait de l’or.
Charles Baudelaire— You gave me your mud and I have turned it to gold."Ébauche d’un épilogue pour la 2e édition," Les Fleurs du Mal (1861), Appendice II: Autres pièces [4]
ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.
pierre corneille— Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.Tulle, act V, scene iii
Égaré dans une forêt immense pendant la nuit, je n’ai qu’une petite lumière pour me conduire. Survient un inconnu qui me dit:;: Mon ami, souffle ta bougie pour mieux trouver ton chemin. Cet inconnu est un théologien. No VIII
Denis Diderot— Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian. — Number VIII
On meurt toujours trop tôt - ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée:;: le trait est tiré, il faut faire la somme. Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie.
jean-paul sartre— One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.Inès, Act 1, sc. 5
Après des siècles d'esclavage, Le Belge sortant du tombeau, A reconquis par son courage, Son nom, ses droits et son drapeau, Et ta main souveraine et fière, Peuple désormais indompté, Grava sur ta vieille bannière Le Roi, la loi, la liberté.
— The years of slavery are past,
The Belgian rejoices once more;
Courage restores to him at last
The rights he held of yore.
Strong and firm his grasp will be—
Keeping the ancient flag unfurled
To fling its message on the watchful world:
For king, for right, for liberty.
— Alexandre Dechet, La Brabançonne (Belgian National Anthem), written during the Revolution of 1830. Music by François van Campenhout; translation by Florence Attenborough, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 66.
tzuhtzjo:m uy-u:xlaju:n pik chan ajaw u:x uni:w uhto:m il[?] ye'ni/ye:n bolon yokte' ta chak joyaj
— Anonymous scribe on Monument 6 at Tortuguero; this is the only known example of a Mayan prophecy specifically related to the date corresponding to 21 December 2012 in the modern Gregorian Calendar, as translated in "What Could Happen in 2012 : A Re-Analysis of the 13-Bak'tun Prophecy on Tortuguero Monument 6" (2010) by Sven Gronemeyer and Barbara MacLeod, Wayeb Notes (University of Copenhagen: European Association of Mayanists) 34: 1–68
