Hexameters Quotes & Sayings

Actually, what I'm confused about is how. — Randall Munroe

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'. — Aaron Copland

In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting ...
a murmur of glory and hexameters, of men defending a temple the gods will not save, and of black vessels searching the sea for a beloved isle;
the murmor of the Odysseys and Iliads it was his destiny to sing and leave echoing concavely in the memory of man.
These things we know, but not those he felt descending into the last shade of all. — Jorge Luis Borges

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.
It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. — Kahlil Gibran

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god. — Ashraf Barhom

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop. — Kato Lomb

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar. — Daniela Pestova

THE THOUGHTS that rain their steady glow Like stars on life's cold sea, Which others know, or say they know - They never shone for me. Thoughts light, like gleams, my spirit's sky, 5 But they will not remain. They light me once, they hurry by, And never come again. — Matthew Arnold