Famous quotes containing the words clemens, august, von and/or bishop:
“Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.”
—Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (c. 348–405)
“If August passes
flowerless,
and the frosts come,
will I have learned to rejoice enough
in the sober wonder of
green healthy leaves?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“All the untidy activity continues,
awful but cheerful.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)