Max Türnau

“Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...”
― Richard Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelung

“Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

“I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord
For I have spread the seed of the Word.”
― ابوالقاسم فردوسی / Abolghasem Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
― Homer, The Iliad