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.
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
“Ambition wedded to sloth,” said Molnar. “Let no one say you don’t think like a true magician.”
O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!