Quotes from barker elsa ii

I have never given my soul to the keeping of an earthly body, And so I can sing at all times and seasons.

There is a crevice in Love's garden wall Where mandrakes thrive, with lilies rank and tall; Where stealthy Death peers through a purple veil In madmen's eyes, and strange worms crawl and crawl.

Sweet is the oblivion of sleep; But sweeter far is the sleep beyond oblivion.

He who remembers, sees; and he who sees, can fly.

Then I sped across the prairies of ether and stood upon the moon. It was no longer luminous, its hardness hurt my feet; And I found that it had nothing either to sell or give me; Its empty frankness was brutal as a blow.

My friend, there is nothing to fear in death. It is no harder than a trip to a foreign country—the first trip—to one who has grown oldish and settled in the habits of his own more or less narrow corner of the world.

I lie alone under the mocking sky. The midnight hours indifferently walk by.

In these unquenchable desires we feel The thirsty future's dominant appeal; And through the fire of our impassioned dust A thousand ancestors their loves reveal.

It is a long road that leads to eternity, and the inns for travelers are few.

She is the idol of the wise, The mistress of the rhyming race; But pain lurks in her luring eyes, And bitter-sweet is her embrace.

Indomitable must be God's desire To realize Life's secret and acquire Mastery, when he sends you, one by one, Eternally, to question the bright sun And the dark earth and the indifferent stars!

It has been said that he is a fool who works for philosophy instead of making philosophy work for him; but a man cannot give to the world even a little of a true philosophy without reaping sevenfold himself.

It is undoubtedly true that there is no spirit without substance, no substance without spirit, latent or expressed; but a painting of a man may seem at a distance to be a man.

Only the Lord of Change has endless sway. The vanished Love of our dead yesterday.

I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.

If you knew the meaning of light you would yourself be a light in a dark place.

But they who drink the Muse's breath Pay for the draught with many tears-- Their destiny until their death To seek her shadow down the years.