#pear

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#appears #courage #disappeared #doubt #god

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#shakespeare #william-shakespeare #age

William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. ↗

— Marc Norman

#die #fade #shakespeare-in-love #william-shakespeare #age

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. ↗

— Lesley Pearse

#georgia #lesley #old #pearse #suffering

Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.” She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. “And damned be he—she—who cries, ‘Hold, enough!’” “Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you,” I told her, and she laughed. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#frost-burned #humor #jesse-hauptman #mercy-thompson #samuel-cornick

Thou art a very ragged Wart. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#henry-iv #shakespeare #art

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#william-shakespeare #art

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#art

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6) ↗

— Jean Calvin

#astronomy #calvin #genesis #art

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#always #appears #been #between #books