Be a good animal. True to your...

Be a good animal. True to your extincts.

I can only see death and more ...

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

Most fatal, most hateful of al...

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

My soul is my great asset and ...

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

[U]nless a woman is held, by m...

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

Europe is, perhaps, the least ...

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

Anyone who is kind to man know...

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

Not that the Red Indian will e...

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

The mystery of the evening-sta...

The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

While the white man keeps the ...

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

We are so conceited and so unp...

We are so conceited and so unproud.

There is no evolving, only unf...

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

Isn't it god's own image? tram...

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
after partridges, or a little rubber ball?
wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

How beastly the bourgeois is

How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species

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Reach me a gentian, give me a ...

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

I should like [people] to like...

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

The lion shall never lie down ...

The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

Democracy and equality try to ...

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

The east is not for me--the se...

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

Persephone herself is but a vo...

Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.