#latin

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#change

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker. If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. And that’s who forms our poetics. ↗

— Juan Felipe Herrera

#poetry #communication

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ↗

— Carl Sagan

#knowledge #latin #learn #science #truth

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith ↗

— Horace

#latin #philosophy #faith

Even the most political poem is an act of faith. ↗

— Martin Espada

#poetry #faith

nil admirari" be surprised at nothing ↗

— Motto of the Fitzgibbon family

#family

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#friendship #relating #experience

Facilis descensus Averno: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. ↗

— Virgil the aeneid

#latin #inspirational

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#come #commonly #done #going #happen

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#latin #language