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“And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw.”
― The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months
Oft stumbles at a straw.”
― The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
― My Name Is Red
― My Name Is Red
“Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?”
― The Museum of Innocence
― The Museum of Innocence
“Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.”
― The Faerie Queene, Book Two
― The Faerie Queene, Book Two
“My Love Is Like To Ice, And I To Fire
My love is like to ice, and I to fire;
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolv'd through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not delay’d by her heart-frozen cold;
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold!
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice;
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device!
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.”
― Amoretti And Epithalamion
My love is like to ice, and I to fire;
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolv'd through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not delay’d by her heart-frozen cold;
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold!
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice;
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device!
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.”
― Amoretti And Epithalamion
Mohanan’s 2024 Year in Books
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