- Added 2024As long as you live, shine,Let nothing grieve you beyond measure.[Let every joy infuse your heart forever]For your life is short,and time will claim its toll....The Seikilos epitaphis the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. The epitaph has been variously dated, but seems to be either from the 1st or the 2nd century AD.Added after Nov 2019
"An adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived." UKL in The Language of the Night 1979 printed in 1982, pg 34.
Added after 4 Feb 2017
Build Me a Boat by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
in "Citadelle"
If I communicate to my men the love of sailing on the sea, you will soon see them specializing according to their thousand particular qualities: that one will weave the canvas, another will fell the tree in the forest, another still will forge nails and there will be some who observe the stars to learn to steer, and yet all will be as one. To create the ship is not to weave the canvas, to forge the nails, to read the stars, but rather to convey the taste of the sea.
In other words: to motivate people, help them yearn for something in their imagination.
Et par contre, si je communique à mes hommes l’amour de la marche sur la mer, et que chacun d’eux soit ainsi en pente à cause d’un poids dans le cœur, alors tu les verras bientôt se diversifier selon leurs mille qualités particulières. Celui-là tissera des toiles, l’autre dans la forêt par l’éclair de sa hache couchera l’arbre. L’autre, encore, forgera des clous, et il en sera quelque part qui observeront les étoiles afin d’apprendre à gouverner. Et tous cependant ne seront qu’un. Créer le navire ce n’est point tisser les toiles, forger les clous, lire les astres, mais bien donner le goût de la mer qui est un, et à la lumière duquel il n’est plus rien qui soit contradictoire mais communauté dans l’amour.
Google translation:
And on the other hand, if I communicate to my men the love of walking on the sea, and each of them be so inclined because of a weight in the heart, then you will soon see them diversify according to their thousand spacial qualities. This one will weave canvases, the other in the forest by the lightning of his ax will put down the tree. The other, again, will forge nails and some will be some who will observe the stars in order to learn to govern. And yet all will be one. To create the ship is not to weave the canvases, to forge nails, to read the stars, but to give taste to the sea which is one, and in the light of which there is nothing that is contradictory but community in the love.
More direct translation:
'but good to give the taste of the sea who is one, and to the light of which there is not more nothing that is contradictory but community in the love'
Most translations try to give an idea of what is said when, if you look word for word, you are more able to hear the metaphors of that language; to translate more accurately would likely involve 5 paragraphs of the above sentence
hmm. A community of love. ... the sea, which is composed of all one element, water, compared to a community working together but each according to their interest and skills. Yes there is nothing more contradictory than that.
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