“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
“O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul.”
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (1688–1740) politician, died 1740
Quoting for posterity the remarks of an unnamed soldier at the Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704), as reported by William King in Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times http://books.google.com/books?id=ShklAAAAMAAJ&q=%22O+God+if+there+be+a+God+save+my+soul+if+I+have+a+soul%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage (1818)
“Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.”
Pindar (-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
Pythian 3, line 61-62.
Variant translation: Seek not, my soul, immortal life, but make the most of the resources that are within your reach.
“… my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”
Jeff Lindsay book Dexter Is Delicious
Source: Dexter Is Delicious
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) English Methodist and hymn writer
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)
“Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!”
Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems
Source: Howl and Other Poems
“I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.”
Christopher Vokes (1904–1985) Canadian general
The Occupation, p. 208
Vokes - My Story (1985)
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) Polish writer
Quoted by Michael Hamburger, in his book, The Truth of Poetry.
Quoes
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Johann Gottlieb Fichte book The Vocation of Man
Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 77
The Vocation of Man (1800), Faith