Heavenly Bodies Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words heavenly, bodies and/or defeated:

    they remained free in the heavenly chasm,
    remained angels, but dreaming angels,
    each imbued with the mysteries of the other.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    What is wanted—whether this is admitted or not—is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicting all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The poet is he who fights on the passionate
    Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
    Is defeated it is hard to say who wins....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)