Yet there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: without the sting of otherness, of--even--the vicious, without th...e terrible energies of the underside of health, sanity, sense, then nothing works or can work. I tell you that goodness-what we in our ordinary daylight selves call goodness: the ordinary, the decent--these are nothing without the hidden powers that pour forth continually from their shadow sides. Their hidden aspects contained and tempered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same flight... The self-same way with more advised watch To find the other forth, and by adventuring both I oft found both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In asking for a voice in the government under which we live, have we been pursuing a shadow for fifty years? In seeking political ...power, are we abdicating that social throne where they tell us our influence is unbounded? No, no! The right of suffrage is no shadow, but a substantial entity that the citizen can seize and hold for his own protection and his country's welfare. A direct power over one's own person and property, an individual opinion to be counted, on all questions of public interest, are better than indirect influence, be that ever so far-reaching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.... He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts,... What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun... Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »