Quotes from ELSA BARKER

With equal wonder we survey The planet and the midge.

All life is a dream, my children, but you are not the dreamer; the Dreamer rests on a bed of down plucked from the breast of the swan of eternity. He turns in His sleep sometimes, and a world comes to

The poorest lives some little blossoms bring To deck Love's altar in the days of spring.

Lest Love should grow too earthly to aspire, The wise gods blinded him with vague desire; They nourished him on dreams and ecstasies, Tempered his arrows in the sacred fire.

The wine of immortality I carry with me, and so am never thirsty.

There are wings on the shoulders of all men, But being invisible the wings are never spread.

He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.

To conquer the world must man renounce the world?

I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

The joy of the struggle! That is the keynote of immortality, the keynote of power. Let this be my final message to the world. Tell them to enjoy their struggles, to thrill at the endless possibilities of combination and creation, to live in the moment while preparing for long hence, and not to exaggerate the importance of momentary failures and disappointments.

I have whispered to you in the perfume of a rose; But the flower soon faded and was like me forgotten.

Oh, for the pure oblivion of sleep! In those vast waters I would sink me deep Beyond where both desire and dream lie dead, And passion and despair forget to weep.

Only the poet looks Love in the eyes.

What shall prevail against the spirit of man, When cold, the lean and snarling wolf of hunger, The threatening spear of ice-mailed Solitude, Silence, and space, and ghostly-footed Fear Prevail not?

Where there is neither light nor darkness, there God can cast His reflections. That seems to you impossible, because you are neither light nor dark; If you were either you would know your opposite -- and the neuter state where the two join hands. But that is too deep for you and too deep for the world of twilight people.

An angel can long subsist on its own substance.

We draw to ourselves the experiences which we are ready for and which we demand, and most souls do not demand enough.

Freedom is a bird of many feathers; It may let one flutter down sometimes in the kitchengardens of the world, But the bird rests not upon any branch that grows near the ground.

O little hour of Love, so wild and sweet! I gave the world, thy honey-dew to eat; And now the tear-sown pathway of the dead Echoes the patter of thy flying feet.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak?

He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.