3 quotes found
“Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.”
“Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, bec...”
“A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intell...”
