Italian Descent Living

Famous quotes containing the words italian, descent and/or living:

    “Their martyred blood and ashes sow
    O’er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
    The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
    A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
    Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible—such descent I call beauty.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one’s mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)