Easter Quotes
The sources for this page are the faith, hope and spirituality pages, not a collection of Easter writing. A few entries do mention the day: Longfellow’s The Spanish Student (1843) sets a scene on a bright Easter Sunday with blossoming trees, and W. H. Auden, in A Certain World (1970), says Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry but Good Friday cannot, any more than Auschwitz.
Most of what else you find here is general. Expect devotional writers and poets, with sources and dates on every quote page. Anything flagged as disputed or misattributed carries a note that says what the editors turned up.
Faith in a better than that which appears, is no less required by art than by religion.
Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
Worse than despair,
Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.