“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”

Maxim 39, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

Card I : The Magician http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot02.htm <br class="br">The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913) <br class="br">Context: I Saw the Man.<br>His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle. He stood deep in foliage and flowers and his head, on which was the head-band of an initiate, seemed to disappear mysteriously in infinity.<br>Before him on a cube-shaped altar were four symbols of magic — the sceptre, the cup, the sword and the pentacle.<br>His right hand pointed to heaven, his left to earth. Under his mantle he wore a white tunic girded with a serpent swallowing its tail.<br>His face was luminous and serene, and, when his eyes met mine, I felt that he saw most intimate recesses of my soul. I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself.<br>And I heard a voice saying:<br>—&quot;Look, this is the Great Magician!

Paris 1923
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311
Quotes, 1920's

"Love after Love"
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)

Source: Cosmopolis

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)

Source: Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 45