Poetry Quote by Aeschylus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”

“Nothing forces us to know”

“Oh, the torment bred in the race,”

“No light thing is it, to come back from death,”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”

“Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.”

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.”

“Our”

“There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.”

“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”

“There is no Frigate like a Book”