SISTERS STRANGE
A word worth one coin, silence is worth two.
Chiam Potok, The Chosen
The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other; The moon is my sister.
Hilaire Belloc, The Early Morning
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything
than face the odds.
Iris Murdoch, Acastios: Two Platonic Dialogues
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many
birthdays as the grains of dust. I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
THE FURIES
The vast cities of America, The fertile plains of Hindostan, The crowded
abodes of the Chinese, are menaced with utter ruin.
Mary Shelley, The Last man (1826)
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullus Cicero, Ninth Oration
The Starlings wandered
Till three hawks took them
And now my agents
Have caught the cripple.
Les Murray, 'Property'
