“I gave you wings to fly looming high and easy over unboarded sea and the entire earth. At every meal and banquet you will be present on the lips of guests. Graceful young men will sing of you in limpid lovely notes to the clean piping of the flutes. When you go under the dark vaults of earth to the mournful chambers of sad Hell, even when you lie dead you will not lose your glory. Your name will be recalled among men always, Kyrnos. You will wheel high over the mainland and Greek islands and cross the unharvested sea pulsing with fish, not by horse but carried to those who love you in the gifts of Muses capped in violet flowers. You will be like a song to the living as long as there is sun, earth. Yet you ignore me and trick me as if I were a child.” Willis BarnstoneTheognis Author:Theognis
“Best of all things is never to be born, never to know the light of sharp sun. But being born, then best to pass quickly as one can through the gates of Hell, and there lie under the massive shield of earth.” Willis BarnstoneTheognis Author:Theognis
“Easier to make bad out of good than good out of bad. Don't try to teach me. I am too old to learn.” Willis BarnstoneTheognis Author:Theognis