Orient
The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world.
Quotes
[edit]- Action on the part of one side has always immediately called forth a reaction on the part of the other, and one may rightly doubt whether the Occident has always supplied the action, and the Orient the response, as is now the case, or whether the initiative has not rather changed from one side to the other in the course of history.
- Carl Heinrich Becker, quoted in Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009)
- The darkness of her Oriental eye
Accorded with her Moorish origin
(Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by;
In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin);
When proud Granada fell, and, forced to fly,
Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin
Some went to Africa, some stay’d in Spain,
Her great-great-grandmamma chose to remain.- Lord Byron, Don Juan, I, lvi
Other usages
[edit]- Upon her head she weares a crowne of starres,
Through which her orient hayre waves to her waist,
By which beleeving mortalls hold her fast,
And in those golden chordes are carried even,
Till with her breath she blowes them up to heaven.- Ben Jonson, "An Angel Describes Truth", in Hymenæi (1606)
