“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I will do such things,-- What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth.” — Shakespeare, William Copy Share Image
“In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I yet beseech your majesty,-- If for I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not; since what I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Put on what weary negligence you please, You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question: If he dislike it, let… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
