Spirit Quotes

Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
William Allingham



God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign. Whatever is created by the spirit is more alive than matter.
Charles Baudelaire



My spirit is old; and some black lot awaits me On my long road. Some dream accurst, inveterate, suffocates me Still with its load. So young yet hosts of dreadful thoughts appal me, Sick and opprest. Come! and from shadowy phantoms disenthral me, Friend.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok



Her cabind, ample Spirit, It flutterd and faild for breath. To-night it doth inherit The vasty Hall of Death.
Matthew Arnold



Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
Honor de Balzac



Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.
Stephen Vincent Bent



The role of the artist is to guide...to teach us to see..and to show us the way from the letter to the spirit.
Paul luard



And when, as on that day, nine of the greatest masked spirits in the clan came out together it was a terrifying spectacle. Okonkwo's wives, and perhaps other women as well, might have noticed that the second egwugwu had the springy walk of Okonkwo. And they might also have noticed that Okonkwo was not among the titled men and elders who sat behind the row of egwugwu. But if they thought these things they kept them to themselves. The egwugwu with the springy walk was one of the dead fathers of the clan.
Chinua Achebe



A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Spiro Agnew



Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
Shana Alexander



High level of national spirit, national conscious and esteem to Azeries belong to the specific features of Nakhchivan.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev



Even in the hard for them times Nakhchivanese do not lose their spirits, they move their work forward construct and create.
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev



Anno 1670, not far from Cyrencester, was an Apparition: Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a Farie.
John Aubrey



Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
John James Audubon



You know I've smoked a lot of grass O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills But I never touched nothin' That my spirit could kill.
Hoyt Wayne Axton