“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.”
Source: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady
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George Bernard Shaw413
Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
“My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.”
Babur (1483–1530) 1st Mughal Emperor
"History of India" at Amazing World http://www.amworld.info/india-travel/history-of-india
Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576) Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer
The Book of My Life (1930)
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Attributed to Rodin in: Southwestern Art Vol. 6 (1977). p. 20; Partly cited in: A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 7
1950s-1990s
Context: The artist must learn the difference between the appearance of an object and the interpretation of this object through his medium. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Jan Smuts (1870–1950) military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa
Holism and Evolution (1926)
“My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Source: Songs of Unreason
“I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.”
Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
“I shall never of my own free will expose the naked soul of Manuel to anybody.”
James Branch Cabell book Figures of Earth
Manuel, in Ch. XXXIX : The Passing of Manuel
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: I shall never of my own free will expose the naked soul of Manuel to anybody. No, it would be no pleasant spectacle, I think: certainly, I have never looked at it, nor did I mean to. Perhaps, as you assert, some power which is stronger than I may some day tear all masks aside: but this will not be my fault, and I shall even then reserve the right to consider that stripping as a rather vulgar bit of tyranny.
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Y algo golpeaba en mi alma,
fiebre o alas perdidas,
y me fui haciendo solo,
descifrando
aquella quemadura
y escribí la primera línea vaga,
vaga, sin cuerpo, pura,
tontería
pura sabiduría
del que no sabe nada,
y vi de pronto
el cielo
desgranado
y abierto.
Poesía (Poetry) from Memorial de Isla Negra (Memorial of Isla Negra) (1964), Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0-395-54418-1] (p. 457).