Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVII: On Ill-Health and Endurance of Suffering
“I must endure the torturing ray,
And, with all beauty, all desire.
Ah, time-long must the effort be,
And far the way that I must go
To bring my spirit unto thee,
Behind the glass, within the glow.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
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George William Russell
(1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“My spirit longs for Thee,
Within my troubled breast,
Though I unworthy be
Of so divine a Guest.”
John Byrom
(1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
"The Desponding Soul's Wish" (also called "My Spirit Longs For Thee")
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
George William Russell
(1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
Vladimir Lenin
(1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: What is to be Done? (1902), Chapter Three, Section D, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw”
Harriet Winslow Sewall
(1819–1889) American poet
Why thus longing? reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Phil Ochs
(1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
Source: Pleasures of the Harbor (1967), Liner notes; part of this statement is often paraphrased "In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty."
Context: I watched my life fade-away in a flash
A quarter of a century dash through closets full of candles with never a room
For rapture through a kingdom had been captured.
And so I turn away from my drizzling furniture and pass old ladies
Sniffling by movie stars' tombs, yes I must be home again soon.
To face the unspoken unguarded thoughts of habitual hearts
A vanguard of electricians a village full of tarts
Who say you must protest you must protest
It is your diamond duty…
Ah but in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty
And the bleeding seer crawled from the ruins of the empire
And stood bleeding, bleeding on the border
He said, passion has led to chaos and now chaos will lead to order.
Oh I have been away for a while and I hope to be back again soon.