Famous quotes containing the words soul and/or blade:
“I did not live until this time
Crownd my felicity,
When I could say without a crime,
I am not thine, but Thee.
This carcase breathd, and walkt, and slept,
So that the World believd
There was a soul the motions kept;
But they were all deceivd.”
—Katherine Philips (16311664)
“During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathelike an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.”
—W.N.P. Barbellion (18891919)