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I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.
The more you gaze into her eyes, the more you will see what you want, what is actually inside your heart. And then she will suddenly vanish and you will wonder how you lost her. So you must close the door on your emotions. Eros is not a painter and he often spoils our work.
With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.
Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus."
"That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not."
"He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin."
Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.
You fucked the groom fifteen minutes before he was to say his vows."
"Ah, yeah." I adjust my erection again.
"Then you took the father-in-law."
"Well, I was already naked and you know I recover quickly-"
"Eros!
Love me until Venus gasps with envy.
Love me again until Eros swears celibacy.
When Psyche got up to leave, Eros once again mentioned that he would miss her on Sunday."Even if you come on Sunday, I shall not be able to give you what you want. I shall be having my period then & it will be too messy for your liking," his secretary advised him.[MMT]
ellory erecius is very cool!!!2
He believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves and no end to their capacity to deceive themselves and that though they loved life, they probably loved death more and in the end thanatos would likely win over eros.
Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees
Philo of Alexandria,
Hey, Ernessa, where the fuck are you?
If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!
Erchomai, it said.
I am coming.
I'm sorry Eren ... I can't ... Give up. If I die now ... I won't even be able to remember you. So no matter what ... I'm going to win! Whatever I have to do, I'm going to live!!
Frienship is eros ... without wings
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
He [Cupid] was Love [Eros] reborn. And as he was born after his parents coupled as Love-Birds, he was born with little fluttering wings.
Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up ... I don't know what I should do: two states of mind in me ...
And thus Bacchus turned Phyllis into his slave. She had become the lovely slave girl, Briseis, whom Achilles took as a war prize & whom Achilles had to yield to Agamemnon, his boss. Just as Phyllis was the prize that Eros found & whom Eros had to yield to Bacchus,his boss.[MMT]
I consider it poor historical form to make fun of ancestral mistakes without respecting the eros that was linked to them. We are no less in bondage to the Zeitgeist; folly is handed down, we merely don a new cap.
Um, Dr. Alexander, there's a couple out here who say they're related to you. They ... um ... they're biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we're okay so we can come and ooh and aah over the babies. (Eros)
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.
Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.
Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,
Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time.
Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers.
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, knew the time would soon come to prove just how much she'd bleed for Erilea.
Our Euripides the human,
With his droppings of warm tears,
and his touchings of things common
Till they rose to meet the spheres.
Eriskigal, or as some say it, Erishkigal, is Morgan le Fay, Kali, Persephone, and Hel.'
'She's Hel all right,' Jarrah muttered.
I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros.
Perseus, you are not the hero.
This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule."
"Semi-autonomous," the alien said.
"Pleased to meet you."
"Likewise.
Despairing Dido, queen of ancient Carthage, slain by her own hand as her magnificent lover Aeneas lifts anchor and sails away forever: this is one of the most haunting and permanent images of the classical world.
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
A virtuous esculent!
Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially, skin and bone, in the symbolic moment of birth.
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]
hydra of revolution,
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros)
ALEXAS
Gracious Queen, even Herod of Judea wouldn't dare look at you unless you were in a good mood.
Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger
Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans,
And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes
To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs
And birds of prey.
Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now ...
Dionysus the god of drinking so hard you wake up with TWO hangovers and then they FIGHT.
Erre es korakas, Blinkey!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!"
"Um, he's a video game character," I said.
What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm.
"Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him.
"I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian)
I'm not a fool, no matter what you people think of the Thuvhesit,' Akos snapped, his cheeks going ruddy as he picked up the practice blade. 'You think I'm going to just let you set me up for a fall?'"
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Prince Achilles! Aristos Achaion! As
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides
Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and virtuous, as Nassrin's uncle had said, or dirty and fun. What was alien to us was eros, true sensuality.
I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates.
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
And that we call enos ermarf."
"What?" I didn't see what he was pointing at.
"That. The way the lake curves forward into t grass, framed by derrishoul trees."
"You have a word for something like that?" I asked.
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Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.
This destroyer of worlds and creature of wonder.
Dante, or the hyena that writes poetry in tombs.
Eduardo started a fire, made a pot of ersatz
Demetrius appeared
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're beautiful.
Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven't seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.
Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)
Erchomai , I am coming
Veni, I have come
Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.
Aelin of the wildfire.
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
Gee, I wonder who you could be referring to?" Owen said.
"I mean you," Erebus said. "I just did not wish to be rude."
"All you've been is rude." Owen muttered just under a whisper.
"Some minds are more capable than others." Erebus smiled at Hugh.
Fiery goddess in search of the perfect god. Soar with me through clouds, frolic under the stars, hand me the moon for my own. Mortals need not reply.
Orpheus. Had the name he had taken ever suited him better? But he would be wilier than the singer whose name he had stolen. He would indeed. He would send another man into the realm of Death in the Fire-Dancer's place-and he'd make sure that he didn't come back.
Most people know who Pegasus is, for instance, but few realize that he was born from the blood of snake-headed Medusa immediately after she was slain by Perseus. The luminous winged stallion of the Greeks emerged from the life force of womanly wisdom in its darkest, most disturbing aspect,
Furo Costas. The Rager. You, my friend, are an imbecile. You could have killed me twenty times, on the Tracks. I'm surprised you're not dead.
Ro shrugs, happily. It's nothing he hasn't heard before, and nothing he doesn't see as a compliment.
Orion:"Where shall I shoot him?"
Eros grinned. "Considering he won't even feel the arrow, take your pick. I know what I would aim at.
The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?
I am Ares! I am a murderer too!...And what do we do with to murderers?
Exodia Obliterate!
Artemis the bitch goddess. You know her. She's the one who stole your soul. (Simi)
She didn't steal it. (Gallagher)
Of course she did. She steals everything. (Simi)
Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
Aching, shaking, crazy, cold;
But still continue as thou art,
Ancient person of my heart.
The hideous god of war.
Do you know my dog's name?
[ ... ]
"It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'"
I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And ... you named your dog *Spot*?
Sing, Marie of Arras. Do not forget, Marie of Arras.
It is the empiric who never fails.
If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.
Esperanza, that you,
God!...If only I had not read so much Egyptology before coming to this land which is the fountain of all darkness and terror!
The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.