Remaining Elemental Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words remaining, elemental and/or spirits:

    “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    “For the elemental creatures go
    About my table to and fro,
    That hurry from unmeasured mind
    To rant and rage in flood and wind....
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    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “They who have considered our nature, affirm that shame and disgrace are two of the most insupportable evils of human life: the courage and spirits of many have master’d other misfortunes and borne themselves up against them; but the wisest and best of souls have not been a match for these.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)