#verdi

Orfeo son io, che d'Euridice i passi Seguo per queste tenebrose arene Ove giammai per vom mortal non vassi. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

#inspirational #monteverdi #orfeo #inspirational

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy

When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hatred #judge #just #verdict #hatred

Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#first #sentence #verdict

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#back #body #end #exalted #his

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#been #calculated #country #desire #getting

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#certainly #heard #history #invoke #those

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#break #day #either #even #feared

Old age is the verdict of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#life #old #old age #verdict

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#call #certain #dangerous #description #give