Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses: But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms. Now I've left my sweetheart: and they've left me, And I roll m…

Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it. Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes…

I feel I'm happily inspired now on Classical soil: The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly. Here, as advised, I leaf through the works of the Ancien…

That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such - be it so; but I love, and …

There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness.

This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know?