“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.” ArtistReligiousLandPoetSaintLawyerJournalistProfessorsBusinessmanSailorStatesmenGangstersParasites Author:William C. Brown
“Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.” KnowsMenMeanWould BeAbleReligiousFictionPoetLimitsEternalPunishmentFixedWoeResistingMenace Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things
“The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.” LostFunChurchReligiousLossPoetInfinityGreat Religious Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.” ReligiousJusticeDarknessPoetCreaturesWoundsBillionsOne TimeDriftingReligious Experience Author:Graham Hawkes