Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam | A poem by Ernest Dowson, 1896
Fred Lyon, Ball game in the fog, 1950 The brief sum of life forbids us the hope of enduring longHorace...
Horace
Thoughts on { Sirens | Herman Melville / Franz Kafka / Charles Baudelaire / Horace / Ambrose Bierce / Nikos Kazantzakis
Henri Matisse, Sirènes, 1968 “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem...
Thoughts on { Shame | John Milton / William Blake / Dante Alighieri / Aristotle / William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo / Sophocles
Peanuts "Where shame is, there is also fear." John Milton "Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit." Seneca the...