Dante in the Twentieth CenturyAdolph Caso Branden Books, 1982 - 147 pages |
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Page 38 - Let there be light ; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night : and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 38 - Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.
Page 32 - I have written this Poem from immediate Dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without Premeditation & even against my Will...
Page 30 - You say that I want somebody to Elucidate my Ideas. But you ought to know that What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the Idiot is not worth my care. The wisest of the Ancients considerd what is not too Explicit as the fittest for Instruction because it rouzes the faculties to act.
Page 38 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good.
Page 29 - To my friend Butts I write My first vision of light, On the yellow sands sitting. The sun was emitting His glorious beams From Heaven's high streams. Over sea, over land, My eyes did expand Into regions of air, Away from all care...
Page 35 - The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way.
Page 25 - I GIVE you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball ; It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.
Page 31 - When my heart knockd against the root of my tongue With Angels planted in Hawthorn bowers And God himself in the passing hours With Silver Angels across my way And Golden Demons that none can stay With my Father hovering upon the wind And my Brother Robert just behind And my Brother John the evil one In a black cloud making his mone Tho...
Page 28 - When the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea O no no I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty...