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“Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the archetype.”

Soul Desire Seeing Lovers Draws Filled Invisible Visible Receiving Stamps Ardent Kindles Archetype

Author:Gregory of Nyssa

“We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.”

Heart Stills Soul Spirit Hours Fire Mystery Tasks Insight Gloom Kindles

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

“a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.”

Knows Soul Perfect Pieces Bears Architecture Kindles Reverie

Author:Madame de Stael

“I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.”

Soul Earth Heaven My Own Expectations My Friends Kindles

Book:Converse with God in Solitude, etc

Source: Converse with God in Solitude, etc