Siris

The Apparition by John Donne When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead And that thou think’st thee free From all solicitation from me, Then ...

 A good rule for finding the truth is to draw near it with a unprejudiced mind and a will equally disposed to receive whatever the truth has...

  Even in Slumber by Clark Ashton Smith This separation cleaveth to the core. . . . Even in slumber I am fated To seek thee in vast throngs ...

Last year I did a few posts on the tenth predicament (ninth accident), habitus , i.e., habit in the sense of vestment, which is roughly the ...

 Only he who understands that there exist things "important in themselves," that there are things which are beautiful and good in ...

 Ballade of Moderns by G. K. Chesterton  On deserts red and deserts grey The temples into sand have slid; Go search that splendour of decay ...

 Every society that takes its faults seriously enough to criticize and work on stamping them out eventually becomes identified with those fa...