All Quotes

"Chandra Rajan, Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (Calcutta: Penguin Books, 1989)"

"Horace Hayman Wilson, The Mégha Dúta; or, Cloud Messenger (Calcutta and London, 1814)"

"C. R. Devadhar, Works of Kalidasa II: Poetry (New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993 [1984])"

"W. J. Johnson, The Recognition of Sakuntala; Sakuntala in the Mahabharata (New York: Oxford UP, 2001)"

"Where find a soul that does not thrill In Kalidasa’s verse to meet The smooth, inevitable lines Like blossom-clusters, honey-sweet?"

"Kalidasa, the immortal poet and playwright, is a peerless genius whose works have won world-wide fame. The matchless qualities of his work have been lavishly praised both by the ancient Indian critics and modern scholars. ... In modern times the translations of Kalidasa's works in numerous Indian and foreign languages have spread his fame all over the world and now he ranks among the few topmost poets and playwrights of the world."

"Goethe seems to have taken from Kalidasa the idea of a prologue for Faust."

"The first time I came upon this inexhaustible work, it aroused such enthusiasm in me and so held me that I could not stop studying it. I even felt impelled to make the impossible attempt to bring it in some form to the German stage. These efforts were fruitless but they made me so thoroughly acquainted with this most valuable work, it represented such an epoch in my life, I so absorbed it, that for thirty years I did not look at either the English or the German version. It is only now that I understand the enormous impression that work made on me at an earlier age."

"Wouldst thou the young year’s blossoms, and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed; Wouldst thou the Earth and Heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee, O Shakuntala! and all at once is said."

"In the whole world of Greek antiquity there is no poetical representation of beautiful love which approaches even afar."

"I cannot easily find a product of human mind more pleasant than this [Shakuntala] ... a real blossom of the Orient, and the first, most beautiful of its kind! Something like that, of course, appears once every two thousand years."

"I advance an opinion that we have few specimens either in classical or modern poetry of more genuine tenderness or delicate feeling."

"I got myself into a lovely little—shall we say controversy—with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries."

"I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).""

"Étude pour un buste de M. Erik SATIE peint par lui-même, avec une pensée: je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux."

"On the first movement of Claude Debussy's La Mer, From Dawn to Noon: " Ah, my dear friend, there's one particular moment between half past ten and a quarter to eleven that I found stunning!" (with slight variations in phrasing and translation)"

"nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness."

"I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly."

"Postulez en vous-même."

"Munissez-vous de clairvoyance."

"Seul, pendant un instant."

"Très perdu."

"Ouvrez la tête."

"Superstitieusement."

"D'une manière très particulière."

"Léger comme un œuf."

"Comme un rossignol qui aurait mal aux dents."

"Citation de la célèbre mazurka de SCHUBERT"

"Modéré, je vous prie."

"Un peu chaud."

"Très turc."

"Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention."

"Jerry Cantrell - lead guitar, lead/backing vocals (1987-2002, 2005-present)"

"Sean Kinney - drums (1987-2002, 2005-present)"

"Mike Inez - bass (1993-2002, 2005-present)"

"William DuVall - lead/backing vocals, rhythm guitar (2005-present)"

"Layne Staley - lead vocals (1987-2002)"

"Mike Starr - bass (1987-1993)"

"Down, down, down you're rollin'/Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer/Take another hit/And bury your brother"

"Another alley trip/Bullet seek the place to bend you over/Then you got hit/And you should of known better/Faster we run/And we die young"

"I'm the man in the box/Buried in my shit/Won't you come and save me?/Save me"

"Feed my eyes (can you sow them shut?)/Jesus Christ (deny your maker)/He who tries (will be wasted)/Fear in my eyes (now you told me)"

"I'm the dog who gets beat/Shove my nose in shit"

"Mind, of destructive taste/I choose...to stroll amongst the waste/That was your heart/Lost in the dark/Call off the chase"

"Walls of thought, strong and high/As my castle crumbles with time/I think of you/Oh, yes I do/Such a crime"

"I live tomorrow/You I'll not follow/As you wallow/In a sea of sorrow"

"These stand for me/Name your god and bleed the freak/I'd like to see/How you all would bleed for me"

"Yeah, it goes away/All of this and more of nothing in my life/No colored clay/Individuality not safe"

"As of now I bet you've got me wrong/So unsure you run from something strong"

"I believe them bones are me/Some say we're born into the grave/I feel so alone, gonna end up a/Big ol' pile a them bones"