Galeria (39)

Robert Newton (1905-1956)

Para ler em voz alta (36)

Homero (VIII? a.C.)

To Homer

Standing aloof in giant ignorance,

Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,

As one who sits ashore and longs perchance

To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.

So thou wast blind; -but then the veil was rent,

For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,

And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,

And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;

Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,

And precipices show untrodden green,

There is a budding morrow in midnight,

There is a triple sight in blindness keen;

Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel

To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.

JOHN KEATS [1818]

Galeria (38)

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (1909 - 2001)

De principe bono et malo

Quid bonus est princeps? Canis est custos gregis inde
Qui fugat ore lupus. Quid malus? Ipse lupus.

SIR THOMAS MORE [1518]