“The light comes brighter from the east; the caw
Of restive crows is sharper on the ear.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
"The Light Comes Brighter," ll. 1-2
Open House (1941)
“The Drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.”
Sunset and Evening Star (New York: Macmillan, 1954) p. 322.
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Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
Context: You will naturally examine first, the religion of your own country. Read the Bible, then as you would read Livy or Tacitus. The facts which are within the ordinary course of nature, you will believe on the authority of the writer, as you do those of the same kind in Livy and Tacitus. The testimony of the writer weighs in their favor, in one scale, and their not being against the laws of nature, does not weigh against them. But those facts in the Bible which contradict the laws of nature, must be examined with more care, and under a variety of faces. Here you must recur to the pretensions of the writer to inspiration from God. Examine upon what evidence his pretensions are founded, and whether that evidence is so strong, as that its falsehood would be more improbable than a change in the laws of nature, in the case he relates. For example in the book of Joshua we are told the sun stood still several hours. Were we to read that fact in Livy or Tacitus we should class it with their showers of blood, speaking of statues, beasts, etc. But it is said that the writer of that book was inspired. Examine therefore candidly what evidence there is of his having been inspired. The pretension is entitled to your inquiry, because millions believe it. On the other hand you are astronomer enough to know how contrary it is to the law of nature that a body revolving on its axis as the earth does, should have stopped, should not by that sudden stoppage have prostrated animals, trees, buildings, and should after a certain time have resumed its revolution, & that without a second general prostration. Is this arrest of the earth's motion, or the evidence which affirms it, most within the law of probabilities?
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Genius, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit
“Desire itself is an inspiration.”
Mahāprajña (1920–2010) Acharya or the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism
Thought at Sunrise (2007)
Context: Desire itself is an inspiration. Every man desires to do something in life. Where there is no desire no way would open out. Yet too much of desire creates problems. If we understand where to draw the limits to our ambition then we would experience a constant need to keep our inspiration alive and the desire to make something of one's life would never be ignored.
O, Porcupine.
Brother, Sister (2006)
“Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts
Context: She goes into her room and disappears. Before I went to the war we slept in the same bed. We used to lie down side by side, so as to be annihilated in unconsciousness, or to go and dream somewhere else. Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas. For man and wife — to sleep, to die.) But since I came back we separate ourselves with a wall.