Durst/history

Famous quotes containing the words durst and/or history:

    Never durst poet touch a pen to write
    Until his ink were tempered with love’s sighs.
    O then his lines would ravish savage ears,
    And plant in tyrants mild humility.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
    Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)