 | Emma Driver - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 150 pages
...humans shape it and in doing so shape themselves: Do you think of Italy — or whatever land it is you now inhabit — as a place given you by the gods,...spirit over the pebbles of a brook in clear sunlight ... it is because you have discovered them there, drawn them up out of your soul's need for them and... | |
 | Assumpta Bernal, María José Coperías - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 220 pages
...finally achieved. Do you think of Italy -or whatever land it is you now inhabit- as a place given to you by the gods, ready-made in all its placid beauty?...is a created place. If the gods are with you there [...] it is because you have discovered then there, drawn them up out of your soul's need for them... | |
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Do you think of Italy — or whatever land it is you now inhabit — as a place given you by the gods, ready-made in all its placid beauty? It is not. It is a created place. If the gods are with you there, glowing out of a tree in some pasture or shaking... 