Famous quotes containing the words italian, mars and/or society:
“If the study of his images
Is the study of man, this image of Saturday,
This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
A waking, as in images we awake,
Within the very object that we seek,
Participants of its being.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Venus me yaf my lust, my likerousnesse,
And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“...I cannot conceive a more odious society than one where nothing is considered indecent or impious.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)