Al Boucher

“إن الطريقة التي يتقبل بها الإنسان قدره و يتقبل بها كل ما يحمله من معاناة , و الطريقة التي يواجه بها محنه , كل هذا يهيئ ء له فرصة عظيمة - حتى في أحلك الظروف - لكي يضيف إلى حياته معنى أعمق ..”
― فيكتور إيميل فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning

“Ah, bella damigella, dignità, virtù e valore non sono riposti solo nell'abbigliamento!" esclamò Balin. "La virilità e l'onore sono celati nella persona, e vi sono molti insigni cavalieri ignoti a tutti, a riprova che il pregio e l'ardimento non hanno alcun rapporto con le vesti che indossano.”
― Thomas Malory, Storia di re Artù e dei suoi cavalieri

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood