Quintessence Played

Famous quotes containing the words quintessence and/or played:

    “Study me then, you who shall lovers be
    At the next world, that is, at the next spring:
    For I am every dead thing,
    In whom love wrought new alchemy.
    For his art did express
    A quintessence even from nothingness,
    From dull privations, and lean emptiness:
    He ruined me, and I am re-begot
    Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)