Beautiful Quote by Plutarch

“Oh, but clever words On pages turn to fragments, circles, points and lines And they cover them like carpets With graceful, meaningless, ornamental designs”

— Aaron Weiss

“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“I intone the words with perfunctory detachment, my mind raging dully against the Papyrus font in which they are projected onto the wall.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No…

— Shilpa Agarwal

“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, All we can do is describe…

— Lao Tzu

“That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words…and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the…

— Georges Bataille

“After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and heaviness expressed…

— Pascal Mercier

“Words, so much more readily remembered, gradually replace our past with their own. Our birth pangs become pages. Our battles, our triumphs, our trophies,…

— William H. Gass

“In an isolated region from Iran there is this wall tower, windowless, doorless, not very tall. In its only room with arched walls and…

— jorge luis borges

“A moment ago, when he entered this human aviary, the pictures, modestly enclosed in four wooden mouldings, remained flat and silent before him; in…

— Anonymous

“His five feet three rested angular on the folding chair, a body small, well-wrought and somehow precious, as if it were the forgotten creation…

— Thomas Pynchon

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton