105 quotes
I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.
Sand and Foam (1926)
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
The Prophet (1923)
A sign and a symbol to guide their wayward feet,
But not unto your joy.
Your joy is a hill beyond their vision,
And it does not comfort them.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Master, Master of Light,
Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind,
You are still despised and mocked,
A man too weak and infirm to be God,
A God too much man to call forth adoration.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Here and there, betwixt the cradle and the coffin, I meet your silent brothers,
The free men, unshackled,
Sons of your mother earth and space.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
Sand and Foam (1926)
Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
My enemy said to me, "Love your enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.
Men would bless you or curse you;
The curse, a protest against failure,
The blessing, a hymn of the hunter
Who comes back from the hills
With provision for his mate.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
The Madman (1918)
He knew the depth of beauty, He was for ever surprised by its peace and its majesty; and He stood before the earth as the first man had stood before the first day.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Sand and Foam (1926)
Poet, Singer, Great Heart,
May our God bless your name,
And the womb that held you, and the breasts that gave you milk.
And may God forgive us all.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
You ask why I call Him the first Word.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Yet many have been enthroned in your name
And mitred with your power,
And have turned your golden visit
Into crowns for their head and sceptres for their hand.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I?
When love becomes vast love becomes wordless.
And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
The Prophet (1923)
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit … Life, liberty, and thought — three persons in one substance, eternal, never-ending, and unceasing.
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Sand and Foam (1926)
And then there came peace into their music, and the heavens and the earth sang together.
All this I saw in my dream, and all this I heard.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)