Quotes from barker elsa v

One is only safe with shadows if one carries light within.

To get, one must give. That is the Law.

The difference between a painter and a musician, or between a poet and a novelist, is not a difference of qualities in the entity itself; for each unit contains everything except quantity, and thus has the possibilities of development along any line chosen by its will.

If you desire something of real value -- tell no one. You will find it maybe when the eyes of Destiny are turned the other way.

The pain of Love has poisoned all the day. Pitiless Love, that lures but to betray! And pitiless the whisper of the soul: Like songs and worlds, this too shall pass away.

an end; He smiles in His sleep sometimes, and men know the Golden Age; sometimes He is restless, too, and the revolutions come. Will the Dreamer never awake? Who knows! I would hold Him sleeping; For if He should rise from His nest on the down of eternity, He might rub His drowsy eyes -- and I should forget to be.

I would slake my thirst sometimes at the wells of old remembrance; But the water is so deep I fear to fall therein.

No desert waste is lonelier than I. The arid pain of Love has burned me dry.

If a man understands that his recent sojourn on earth was merely the latest of a long series of lives, and if he concentrates his mind towards recovering the memories of the distant past, he can recover them.

Call no man free nor count his bondage done, Though he be master of unminted gold With kings to do him homage, if his hold Be not so strong on the immortal sun--The shining, heliocentric Self—that none May loosen it.

There is a sore spot in the heart of Truth, and no balm can ever heal it.