Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and ...among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is suppose...d to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power, I said. Power to walk into the gold vaults of the nations, into the secrets of kings, into the holy of holies. Power to mak...e multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger. Even the moon's frightened of me. Frightened to death. The whole world's frightened to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.... No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
and the oxen near The worn foundations of their resting-place,... The holy manger where their bed is corn And holly torn for Christmas. If they die, As Jesus, in the harness, who will mourn? Lamb of the shepherds, Child, how still you lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Holy Wisdom, Soaring Power, encompass us with wings unfurled, and carry us, encircling all, above, below, and through the w...orld.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »