“Let us cry, "All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"”
Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 70.
“Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh!”
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Behold this sea, that sapphire sky!
Where nature does so much for man,
Shall man not set his standard high,
And hold some higher, holier plan?
Some loftier plan than ever planned
By outworn book of outworn land?Where God has done so much for man,
Shall man for God do aught at all?
The soul that feeds on books alone —
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,—
A soul that has not learned to read.</p
“You sod, Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”
Poem In the theatre, in: Dannie Abse (1997) Welsh retrospective, p. 43
“The soul of all is only the soul of each one.”
El alma de todos sólo es el alma de cada uno.
Voces (1943)
“So as the water nibbled away at our land, the war nibbled away at our souls.”
«Иакова Я возлюбил»
And high understanding it is, inwardly to see and know that God, which is our Maker, dwelleth in our soul; and an higher understanding it is, inwardly to see and to know that our soul, that is made, dwelleth in God’s Substance: of which Substance, God, we are that we are.
And I saw no difference between God and our Substance: but as it were all God; and yet mine understanding took that our Substance is in God: that is to say, that God is God, and our Substance is a creature in God.
Summations, Chapter 54
