...away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey breatli hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,...

...away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...beauty hold a plea. Whose action is no stronger than a Mower ? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackf'ul siege of battering days,...

...now can Athens be the world's one city which has secure foundations: the one city which can surely " Hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days,...stout ~Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays." For she will bo forever the sacred city of our souls, and "Shall live Where breath most breathes, even...

...to lose LXV. IK. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'erswavs their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...stronger than a flower? O ! how shall summer's honey hrenth hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,...

...him to it. It issues in some of the most memorable descriptions of mutability and loss ever written: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong...

...as knowledge — this quatrain of a Shakespeare sonnet about the destructions of time, for example: O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? (SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 65) Among the experiences these lines give the reader are "summer," "honey breath,"...

...conversation about Mapplethorpe's work in the United States, they remind us of a couplet from Shakespeare: "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?" Those razor-sharp petals cut through a tough knot in the theory-laden art of our time. Purity in late-twentieth-century...

...cautiously titled "Toward Bethlehem," and its epigraph from Shakespeare's Sonnet LXV is about fragility: How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Even the ending paragraph quoted above hovers over the material details of disembarkation and customs,...

...an entirely different nature from the force of power. The answer to Shakespeare's anguished question Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? (65) is that beauty is more powerful than power, because beauty renews and propagates itself unendingly,...

...and orchestras O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? William Shakespeare, 'Sonnet No. 65'. One of the quirks of human mortality is that we live our lives...