“The music, yearning like a God in pain.”
Stanza 7
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
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English Romantic poet 1795–1821Related quotes
“Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.”
Two in the Campagna, xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it”
Source: A Kingdom of Dreams
Mythologiques I: Le cru et le cuit (1964)
“Music is not a way to reach god. Music is god.”
“To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
Context: To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if he existed; it is to live by this longing and to make it the inner spring of our action.
Context: To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if he existed; it is to live by this longing and to make it the inner spring of our action. This longing or hunger for divinity begets hope, hope begets faith, and faith and hope beget charity. Of this divine longing is born our sense of beauty, of finality, of goodness.
Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy Of Religion (1951), Ch. 24 : The Great Yearning; The Yearning for Spiritual Living<!-- p. 259 -->
Context: He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor, his life for love, knowing that contentment is the shadow not the light. The great yearning that sweeps eternity is a yearning to praise, a yearning to serve. And when the waves of that yearning swell in our souls all the barriers are pushed aside: the crust of callousness, the hysteria of vanity, the orgies of arrogance. For it is not the I that trembles alone, it is not a stir out of my soul but an eternal flutter that sweeps us all. No code, no law, even the law of God, can set a pattern for all of our living. It is not enough to have the right ideas. For the will, not reason, has the executive power in the realm of living. The will is stronger than reason and does not blindly submit to the dictates of rational principles. Reason may force the mind to accept intellectually its conclusions. Yet what is the power that will make me love to do what I ought to do?
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 140