Source: Odd Thomas
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Context: Through the air on the flying trapeze, his mind hummed. Amusing it was, astoundingly funny. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, a flying trapeze to some sort of eternity; he prayed objectively for strength to make the flight with grace.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) American priest
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 6.
Madhvacharya (1199–1278) Hindu philosopher who founded Dvaita Vedanta school
Quoted from [Martha Bush Ashton, Martha Bush Ashton-Sikora, Bruce Christie, Yakṣagāna, a Dance Drama of India, 23, http://books.google.com/books?id=ug3DNI-1xwUC&pg=PA23, 1977, Abhinav Publications, 23–].
“Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 221.
“You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.”
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
When the Shoe Fits
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), II. On Difference of Character
Tim Winton book The Turning
Short story, 'Damaged Goods' - p.60
Short stories, The Turning (2004)
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
As for a few trifling delusions like the "past" and "present" and "future" of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)
i : six nonlectures (1953)
