Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea of valuing timelessness over contemporary trends in writing.
Charles Lamb's quote emphasizes the importance of creating works that transcend the current age and resonate with future generations. It reflects a commitment to classic literature and artistry, suggesting that true creativity should focus on eternal truths rather than fleeting modern popularity.
In practice
In a speech at a literary gathering, to emphasize the value of creating enduring art.
Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
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