Lucretius
Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Caruswas a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De rerum natura about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as On the Nature of Things...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
light air color
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.
sweet struggle wind
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
forever path regions
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
littles able hours
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
real animal soul-and-body
For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals. [Lat., Ignoratur enim, quae sit natura animai; Nata sit, an contra nascentibus insinuetur; Et simul intereat nobiscum, morte diremta, An tenebras Orci visat, vastasque lacunas: An pecudes alias divinitus insinuet se.]
men way saws
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
sound phrases ears
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
children halloween dark
... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
heaven victory levels
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
food science poison
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
struggle wind sea
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
mother sea names
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.
rain earth bears
...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
elements return all-things
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.