“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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James Joyce 191
Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
“O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul.”
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.”
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.
"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!”
Source: Howl and Other Poems
“I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.”
The Occupation, p. 208
Vokes - My Story (1985)
Quoted by Michael Hamburger, in his book, The Truth of Poetry.
Quoes
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 77
The Vocation of Man (1800), Faith