Further to the notion of giving account of ourselves, of indexing as David Altjmed's recent show undertakes, Carreiro examines the idea of impermanence, the delicacy and to use a Lisa Robertson term "lastingness" of text, and literally of letters themselves. ❋ Lemon Hound (2007)
Real love, he asks; not the degraded things to which men give that great name, as to every passing gust of feeling, to every unworthy untamed emotion: but the divine quality, when to the "lastingness," which he requires, is also joined that which is the inner essence of Love, viz., sacrifice. ❋ Richard Rolle (1901)
The artist must avoid rigidity, must stay fresh and open to possibility, if he or she is to achieve "lastingness." ❋ Unknown (2011)
For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls" -- big lumps of the most delicious lastingness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He writes in his introduction: What interests me is lastingness: how it may be attained. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Perhaps our feelings obey the laws of nature as to the lastingness of her creations; to a long life a long childhood. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Item: To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, or aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. ❋ Unknown (1989)
When the work was finally to be taken up, it was to be upon a solid foundation which should last with the lastingness of education. ❋ Harry Best (N/A)
The distinctness with which we can picture the successive scenes of his not extraordinary journey and the lastingness of the impressions left on us are the best testimony to his quality as a master of English prose. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The sense of lastingness was gone from her and every moment with Harney would now be ringed with doubt. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Lord Elgin's marbles upon the lastingness of some things, or, in the mummy room, upon the awful brevity of others. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Museum, actually, since he and Hilda used to meet there; sometimes to set out for gay adventures at Twickenham or Richmond, sometimes to linger about the place for a while and to ponder by Lord Elgin's marbles upon the lastingness of some things, or, in the mummy room, upon the awful brevity of others. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)
His work has one message and one only, the lastingness of beauty and its supreme truth. ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)
(Love is yearning between two, with lastingness of thoughts.) ❋ Richard Rolle (1901)
The lastingness of furniture under fair treatment is astonishing. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
