Lentilhas De Agua Quotes

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El remanso de aire
bajo la rama del eco.

El remanso del agua
bajo fronda de luceros.

El remanso de tu boca
bajo espesura de besos.

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The still waters of the air
under the bough of the echo.

The still waters of the water
under a frond of stars.

The still waters of your mouth
under a thicket of kisses. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

Those who do not carry within them the soul of everything the world can show them, will do well to watch it: they will not recognize it, each thing being beautiful only according to the thought of him who gazes at it & reflects it in himself. Faith is essential in poetry as in religion, & faith has no need of seeing with corporeal eyes to contemplate that which it recognizes much better in itself.
Such ideas were many times, under multiple forms, always new, expressed by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam in his works. Without going as far as Berkley's pure negations, which nevertheless are but the extreme logic of subjective idealism, he admitted in his conception of life, on the same plan, the Interior & the Exterior, Spirit & Matter, with a very visible tendency to give the first term domination over the second. For him the idea of progress was never anything but a subject for jest, together with the nonsense of the humanitarian positivists who teach, reversed mythology, that terrestrial paradise, a superstition if we assign it the past, becomes the sole legitimate hope if we place it in the future.
On the contrary, he makes a protagonist (Edison doubtless) say in a short fragment of an old manuscript of l'Eve future: "We are in the ripe age of Humanity, that is all! Soon will come the senility & decrepitude of this strange polyp, & the evolution accomplished, his mortal return to the mysterious laboratory where all the Ghosts eternally work thei ~ Remy De Gourmont

I am awesome! I accept my amazing, awesome self exactly as I am in this moment. I love myself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for. ~ Judy LaMarsh

remember that He permits every thing for your good, and do not lose confidence: ~ Alfonso Maria De Liguori

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation. ~ Alain De Benoist

Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.) ~ Douglas Coupland

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese. ~ Charles De Gaulle

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair. ~ Pierre De Ronsard

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. ~ Peter De Vries

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth ~ Miguel De Unamuno

Nothing succeeds so well as success. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sexual predators often start with nonsexual touch to desensitize their targets. It might be "accidental" touch, or hugs, pats, strokes, hair-brushing, holding. A ~ Gavin De Becker

He who caused us to be told that we must prove the spirits, would not have done so unless he knew that we had infallible rules to tell the holy from the false spirit. We have such rules, and nobody denies it. But these deceivers produce rules which they can falsify and adapt to their pretensions, in order that, having rules in their hands, they may gain the credit of being masters in their craft by a visible sign under pretext of which they can form a faith and a religion such as they have imagined. ~ Francis De Sales

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos. ~ Thomas De Quincey

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Of Sir Isaac Newton's momentous decipherment of the laws of the universe, the French scientist Pierre-Simon de Laplace famously told Napoleon, in his philosophical euphoria, that he no longer had need of God to make sense of creation. Secular science could henceforth exile God from his universe. In Joseph Smith's conception, by contrast, naturalism and God co-exist. ~ Terryl L. Givens

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut. ~ Robert De Niro

The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

All money is essentially merchandize. ~ Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information. ~ Edward De Bono

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things ~ Aliette De Bodard

She chose her colors carefully. She dressed slowly, she adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to present herself all rumpled like the poppies. She would appear in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh, yes! She was very flirtatious! And her mysterious adornment lasted for days and days. Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them. ~ Honore De Balzac

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners. ~ Honore De Balzac

I seek a woman, the woman of my desires. Who won't be scared by loyalty and truth, nor turn away from the darkness of a soiled past. – Decades ~ Anne De Gandt

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes. ~ Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A thing too silly to be said can be sung. ~ Pierre-Augustine Caron De Beaumarchais

I should have based my judgement upon deeds and not words. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind? ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Armenia categorically rejects the resumption of military hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh as an option. In case Azerbaijan resorts to military aggression, Armenia will have no other choice but to recognize the Nagorno Karabakh Republic de jure and to employ all its capabilities to ensure the security of the people of Artsakh. ~ Serzh Sargsyan

Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere – that was turning from ripeness to over-ripeness and then into something else. The last strains of the Austro-German Romantic tradition – exemplified by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Gustav Klimt – seemed almost to have destroyed itself by reaching a pitch of ripeness from which nothing could follow other than complete breakdown. It was not just that their subject matter was so death-obsessed, but that the tradition felt as though it could not be stretched any further or innovated any more without snapping. And so it snapped: in modernism and then post-modernism. ~ Douglas Murray

Now that may be a first. A girl who has no interest whatsoever in the handsome, emotionally unavailable, Dane Wright. ~ Lisa De Jong

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. ~ Malcolm De Chazal