Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

Dear God, who are the whole splendor of things and the sacred stars, but also the cruelty and greed, the treacheries And vileness, insanities and filth and ang…

Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent an…

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.