Birth Quote by Jose Lezama Lima

“Neleus... The son of Poseidon! A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman. Not plain at all! So…

— Katerina Kostaki

“Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

— D. H. Lawrence

“The Origin of Violets I know, blue modest violets, Gleaming with dew at morn- I know the place you come from And the way…

— Anonymous

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our…

— Charles Dickens

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their…

— Henry David Thoreau

“THE RETURN OF THE GODS Like a white bird upon the wind, the sail of the boat of Manannan mac Lir (Pronounced Mananarn mak…

— Sarah Owen

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that…

— William Wordsworth

Violets are God's apology for February.

— Barbara Johnson

“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a…

— Herman Melville

Unanswered prayers of lowly birth/On wings of folly round the earth/Illusion clouds the eyes that raise/To the emerald gods they praise.

— Kate Miller

Oh Mary, star of the sea, once again we recourse to thee, to find refuge and sernity, to implore your protection and help. Mother…

— Pope Francis