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“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake“Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.”
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet“We take our fetters with us”
our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind“There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.”
Kevin McCloud“So free we seem so fettered fast we are!”
Robert Browning“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it. Because nobody else will.”
Will Fetters“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.”
Sarah Cross, Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.”
Walter Colton“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
John Donne, Alchimie der Liebe. Gedichte, zweisprachig“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Epictetus