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“We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.”

Ifs Knows World Way Stills War States Spirit Poor History Gone Tomorrow Europe Madness Surprise War Of The Worlds Engines World War Ii Flags World War I Breeze Distracted Streaming Demented

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.”

Knows World Light Spirit Fall Lovers Flesh

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.”

World Want Spirit Poetry Speak Silence Principles Creativity Knowing Poet Expression Relation Longing Busy Internals Poetic Mystical Bent Fruition Emanate Enigmatic Mystical Experiences

Author:Jacques Maritain

“As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.”

Knows World Humans Spirit Desire Force Mark Unity Tolerance Superiors Resolve Humanist Contrast Hostility Evaluate Opposing Manifold

Author:Stefan Zweig