Marcus Aurelius Smith

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    It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
    —Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

    And so we ask for peace for the gods of our fathers, for the gods of our native land. It is reasonable that whatever each of us worships is really to be considered one and the same. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe compasses us. What does it matter what practical systems we adopt in our search for the truth. Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.
    —Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (A.D. c. 340–402)

    Our love is old, our lives are old,
    And death shall come amain:
    Should it come today, what man may say
    We shall not live again?
    —Langdon Smith (1858–1908)