Citadels Quote by Théophile Gautier Download Open image ““Things perish. Gods have passed. But song sublimely cast Shall citadels outlast.”” — Théophile Gautier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citadels Song
“Then all the winds of Heaven ran to join hands and bend a shoulder, to bring down to me the sound of a noble… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The God, when he draws near, will the heart stand fast. But, oh my, shame! when of My shame! And let me say at once That I approached to see the Heavenly, And they cast me down, deep down Below the living, into the dark cast down The false priest that I am, to sing, For those who have ears… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share
“Steep are the seas and savaging and cold In broken waters terrible to try; And vast against the winter night the wold, And harbourless for any sail to lie. But you shall lead me to the lights, and I Shall hymn you in a harbour story told. This is the faith that I have held and hold, And this is… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
“Nor am I alone in this, for all the Lord's beloved ones have had to sing the mingled song of judgment and of mercy,… — SPURGEON C H Copy Share Image
“At the break of the dawn, down on my knees, Humbled by your grace, I gather myself, To be worthy of what I must… — Rajat Kaushik Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is the roadmap to His glorious ways. It is a light that pierces through the darkest days.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you’re lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream… — Harriet Du Autermont Copy Share Image
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like ships driving before the storm, which are… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“It is as absurd to say that a man is a drunkard because he describes an orgy or a debauchee because he recounts a… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Smoke By Théophile Gautier Translated by Norman R. Shapiro Over there, trees are sheltering A hunchedback hut... A slum, no more... Roof askew, walls… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I remember being really interested in the sad parts of Los Angeles, of which there are many, and knowing we weren't up in the… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values.… — Albert Martin Copy Share Image
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to… — Niketas Stethatos Copy Share Image