Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
Politics swings like a pendulum.
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.