#rena

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#civilization #culture #europe #history #renaissance

I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots. ↗

— George McGovern

#because #campaign #day #during #each

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#auden #renaissance #art

Još uvijek silno vjerujem u umjetnost kao medikament! ↗

— Jasna Horvat

#inspiration #irena-vrkljan #art