Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities.
I am mistress of all the sciences. I go so far beyond all else that my work is called magic.
Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.