Mistress Quotes - page 3
Behold me, Lucius; moved by thy prayers, I appear to thee; I, who am Nature, the parent of all things, the mistress of all the elements, the primordial offspring of time, the supreme among Divinities, the queen of departed spirits, the first of the celestials, and the uniform manifestation of the Gods and Goddesses; who govern by my nod the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the ocean, and the anguished silent realms of the shades below: whose one sole divinity the whole orb of the earth venerates under a manifold form, with different rites, and under a variety of appellations.
Apuleius
But what, Phaedrus, is the contrary of a dream if not some other dream?... A dream of vigilance and tension dreamt by Reason herself!-And what would such a Reason dream?-If a Reason were to dream-a Reason hard, erect, eyes armed, mouth closed, as though mistress of her lips-would not the dream she dreamt be what we see now-this world of exact forces and studied illusions?-A dream, a dream, but a dream interpenetrated with symmetries, all order, acts and sequences!
Paul Valéry