17 Quotes by George W. Russell

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.