"Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean."

Source : Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

Burton Raffel

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“Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
“Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.”
“I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.”
“You can find hurt and pain in my music while finding the light. It represents empowermentâ€¦ I speak from a very truthful and sincere placeâ€¦with love”
“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.”
“Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.”
“I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.”

Source : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.38, Yale University Press
“If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Rolf Harris" by Rolf Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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