Lanced Hearts of Lovers & Martyrs

I'm Eric, a young poet who seems to have been swept away in the Romantic Spirit of Beethoven's Symphonies, struck by the philosophies of Plato & the Poets' lyrics, burned for love like the martyrs of Rome, and can see an honest beauty in love & faith.

This blog is dedicated to my passions in Poetry, Literature, History, Philosophy, and Music, along with exploring the beauty and truth in the Christian faith-- how it rebels and transcends the ways of the world and burns it ablaze; preaches it's the Heart that counts, sings how Love endures, and that Truth is a beautiful Bride & hypocrisy a sin. It reveals that love is self-less, death is no end, and that there's no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends.

• Faith & Philosophy
• History (esp. 19th cen.-WWI)
• Poetry & Literature
• Catholicism

• Christ
• St. Justin Martyr
• Socrates
• Victor Hugo
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Richard Wagner

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"Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless."
-St. Justin Martyr

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  1. schlieffen: The Abbey in the Oak Wood by Caspar David Friedrich 1808-1810

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    The Abbey in the Oak Wood by Caspar David Friedrich 1808-1810

     
     
  2. ofshalott: Caspar David Friedrich - The Abbey in the Oakwood.  CHAPTER    III.OF RUINS IN GENERAL. ‘FROM the consideration of the sites of Christian monuments we proceed to the effects of the ruins of those monuments. They furnish the heart with magnificent recollections and the arts with pathetic compositions.    All men take a secret delight in beholding ruins. This sentiment arises from the frailty of our nature, and a secret conformity between these destroyed monuments and the caducity of our own existence. We find moreover something consoling to OUR littleness in observing that whole nations, and men once so renowned could not live beyond the span allotted to our own obscurity. Ruins, therefore, produce a highly moral effect amid the scenery of nature; and, when they are introduced into a picture, in vain does the eye attempt to stray to some other object; they soon attract it again, and rivet it upon themselves. And why should not the works of men pass away, when the sun which shines upon them must one day fall from its exalted station in the heavens? He who placed it in the firmament is the only sovereign whose empire knows no decay.’                 —-Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme; BOOK V. The Harmonies of the Christian Religion with the Scenes of Nature and the Passion of the Human Heart

    ofshalott:

    Caspar David Friedrich - The Abbey in the Oakwood. 

    CHAPTER
        III.
    OF RUINS IN GENERAL.

    ‘FROM the consideration of the sites of Christian monuments we proceed to the effects of the ruins of those monuments. They furnish the heart with magnificent recollections and the arts with pathetic compositions. 
       All men take a secret delight in beholding ruins. This sentiment arises from the frailty of our nature, and a secret conformity between these destroyed monuments and the caducity of our own existence. We find moreover something consoling to OUR littleness in observing that whole nations, and men once so renowned could not live beyond the span allotted to our own obscurity. Ruins, therefore, produce a highly moral effect amid the scenery of nature; and, when they are introduced into a picture, in vain does the eye attempt to stray to some other object; they soon attract it again, and rivet it upon themselves. And why should not the works of men pass away, when the sun which shines upon them must one day fall from its exalted station in the heavens? He who placed it in the firmament is the only sovereign whose empire knows no decay.’
                     —-Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme; BOOK V. The Harmonies of the Christian Religion with the Scenes of Nature and the Passion of the Human Heart