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1. “It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us – but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave, we struggle, by multiform combinations among the things and thoughts of Time, to attain a portion of that Loveliness whose very elements, perhaps, appertain to eternity alone.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Desire, Beauty, Longing, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Aspiration, Poetic Metaphor
2. “For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.” Hermann Hesse Extraordinary, Spirits, Winged, Human Potential, Spiritual Aspiration, Universal Archetype
5. “Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.” T.S. Eliot Wings, Air, Still, Poetic Metaphor, Spiritual Aspiration, Existential Paradox
Spiritual Aspiration Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us – but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave, we struggle, by multiform combinations among the things and thoughts of Time, to attain a portion of that Loveliness whose very elements, perhaps, appertain to eternity alone.”
Edgar Allan Poe Desire, Beauty, Longing, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Aspiration, Poetic Metaphor
2. “For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.”
Hermann Hesse Extraordinary, Spirits, Winged, Human Potential, Spiritual Aspiration, Universal Archetype
5. “Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.”
T.S. Eliot Wings, Air, Still, Poetic Metaphor, Spiritual Aspiration, Existential Paradox
