Aeschylus Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

  Aeschylus

  Strong, Rain, Animal

• The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

  Aeschylus

  Air, Heaven, Earth

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.68

• The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

  Aeschylus

  Rain, Heaven, Demeter

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

• I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

  Aeschylus

  Summer, Dog, Stars

• Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

  Aeschylus

  Sacrifice, Hymns, Offering

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.339

• No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

  Aeschylus

  Heaven, Mouths, Temples

• From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

  Aeschylus

  Heaven, Persuasion, Aloof

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin