Confined Quote by Frank E. Gaebelein

The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra…

— Frank E. Gaebelein

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

— Edward Gibbon

As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

— Neil Diamond

Stones define Rock!

— Desmond Fouche

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones…

— Anonymous

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

— Edmund Waller

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language…

— James Merrill

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

— Gilbert Murray

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than…

— George Edward Woodberry

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

— Adrienne Rich

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

“Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: “For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions.” 14”

— Eugene L. Lowry