Quotes from Herod — Stephen Phillips
1864–1915 England
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It is the fault of dreamers to fear fate.
Herod (1901)
The gentle are tame birds that feed the hawk.
Herod (1901)
A sense of something coming on the world,
A crying of dead prophets from their tombs,
A singing of dead poets from their graves.
Herod (1901)
To me it seems that they who grasp the world,
The Kingdom and the power and the glory,
Must pay with deepest misery of spirit,
Atoning unto God for a brief brightness,
And ever ransom, like this rigid king,
The outward victory with inward loss.
Herod (1901)
I tell you we are fooled by the eye, the ear,
These organs muffle us from that real world
That lies about us, we are duped by brightness.
The ear, the eye doth make us deaf and blind;
Else should we be aware of all our dead,
Who pass above us, through us and beneath us.
Herod (1901)
What if the powers permit
The doing of that deed which serves us now;
Then of that very deed do make a spur
To drive us to some act that we abhor?
The first step is with us; then all the road
The long road is with Fate.
Herod (1901)