Franceska: I was happy in the life I built up for myself. I put a fine high wall of music around me and nothing could touch me. I ...was safe and secure. And then you had to come along and knock it all down and I hate you for that. Maxwell: On the contrary, you love me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My demon, too often undressed,... too often a crucifix I bring forth, too often a dead daisy I give water to too often the child I give birth to and then abort....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh demon within, I am afraid and seldom put my hand up... to my mouth and stitch it up covering you, smothering you from the public voyeury eyes of my typewriter keys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Demon come forth, even if it be God I call forth... standing like a carrion, wanting to eat me, starting at the lips and tongue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For certain minutes at the least That crafty demon and that loud beast... That plague me day and night Ran out of my sight; Though I had long perned in the gyre, Between my hatred and desire....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I call demonic the restlessness which is innate and essential in every human being ... (that which) drives one beyond one's limits... into the infinite, into the elemental, as though nature had left behind in every individual soul an inexpressible, restless part of its original chaos, a part that wants to return with tension and passion to the super-human super-sensual element. The demon embodies the ferment, that bubbling, torturesome, upsetting ferment, which urges an otherwise calm life to move in the direction of all that is dangerous, towards excesses, ecstasy, selfdenial, selfdestruction; in most human beings, in the mediocre, this precious but dangerous part of the soul is soon absorbed and consumed ... restrained human beings stifle the Faustian drive within them, chloroform it with morality, dull it with work, restrain it with orderliness; the middle class person is always the mortal enemy of the chaotic.... But in superior human beings, especially in those who are productive, creative restlessness prevails in the form of dissatisfaction with everyday accomplishments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everythin...g together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it t...hrough millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his vent...ure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!... A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »