George William Russell Quotes & Sayings

“Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.”

“Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.”

“When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.”

“We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.”

“Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.”

“The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.”

“Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.”

“Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.”

“After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.”

“The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.”