„They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.“
— Georg Büchner German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813 - 1837
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835), Act I.
„What the grave says,
The nest denies.“
— Theodore Roethke, Praise to the End! (1951), Context: I'll seek my own meekness.
What grace I have is enough.
The lost have their own pace.
The stalks ask something else.
What the grave says,
The nest denies.
"Unfold! Unfold!," ll. 59-64
Theodore Roethke6
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„Old proverbe says,
That byrd ys not honest
That fyleth hys owne nest.“
— John Skelton English poet 1460 - 1529
Poems against Sir Christopher Garnesche, probably published c. 1523, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest", John Heywood, Proverbs (1546) part ii. chap. v.
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„What mare's nest hast thou found?“
— John Fletcher English Jacobean playwright 1579 - 1625
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647), Act IV, scene 2.
„But he is too wise to affirm or to deny the existence of another world. For life beyond the grave there is no consensus of mankind…“
— Richard Francis Burton British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet,… 1821 - 1890
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870), Note I : Hâjî Abdû, The Man, Context: The Hâjî regrets the excessive importance attached to a possible future state: he looks upon this as a psychical stimulant, a day dream, whose revulsion and reaction disorder waking life. The condition may appear humble and prosaic to those exalted by the fumes of Fancy, by a spiritual dram-drinking which, like the physical, is the pursuit of an ideal happiness. But he is too wise to affirm or to deny the existence of another world. For life beyond the grave there is no consensus of mankind… Even the instinctive sense of our kind is here dumb. We may believe what we are taught: we can know nothing. He would, therefore, cultivate that receptive mood which, marching under the shadow of mighty events, leads to the highest of goals, — the development of Humanity. With him suspension of judgment is a system.
„A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.“
— Amit Ray Indian author 1960
World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird (2014) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KkYtBgAAQBAJ,
„225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
On Certainty (1969)
„Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,’ I cried.
‘My friends are gone, but that’s a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied.“
— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1471/, st. 2
„Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping,
That lures the bird home to her nest?
Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping,
To cuddle and croon it to rest?“
— Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet
„True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?“
— Václav Havel playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic 1936 - 2011
Letter to Husák
„The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.“
— Victor Hugo, libro The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
„Atheists say they want a secular world, but a world defined by the absence of the Christians' god is still a Christian world. Secularism is like chastity, a condition defined by what it denies.“
— John Gray 1948
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002), The Unsaved: Atheism, the Last Consequence of Christianity (p.126)
„Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”, “Nests,” p. 55
„Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. "No artist tolerates reality," says Nietzsche.“
— Albert Camus French author and journalist 1913 - 1960
The Rebel (1951), Part 4: Rebellion and Art
„I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.“
— Ellen Goodman American journalist and writer 1941
Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate/, Op-Ed, February 9, 2007
„Suffering, sad "female humanity!" What are these feelings which they are taught to consider as disgraceful, to deny to themselves? What form do the Chinese feet assume when denied their proper development? If the young girls of the "higher classes," who never commit a false step, whose justly earned reputations were never sullied even by the stain which the fruit of mere "knowledge of good and evil" leaves behind, were to speak, and say what are their thoughts employed upon, their thoughts, which alone are free, what would they say?“
— Florence Nightingale English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing 1820 - 1910
Cassandra (1860)
„What was important, now, with her eyes bent upon him, and the shadow of a branch trembling across her breast, was the immemorial game of love: no less a game for being grave. No less grave for being wild. Grave as a great green sky. Grave as a surgeon’s knife.“
— Mervyn Peake English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911 - 1968
Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 42 (p. 881)
