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Grendel's Laundry List: Readings
Thus we are called atheists. And we admit in respect of such supposed gods we are atheists; but not in regard to the most true god.
Justin Martyr
I transform the lover into the beloved and the beloved into the lover. The lover becomes the beloved because the lover dying, lives in the beloved. And the beloved becomes the lover for he learns to know himself in the lover and gets to love himself through the lover. And while he is thus loving himself in loving the lover he loves the lover who himself has become the beloved.
Nesi, De Charitate Dei
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
Tertullian
I waive the quantum of the sin,
The hazard of concealing;
But och! it hardens all within,
And petrifies the feeling!
Robert Burns
The monk ought to be as the cherubim and seraphim: all eye.
Bessarian
Massive bodies are sure to attract one another because the whole universe is filled with the love of God: therefore every massive body is filled with love for every other massive body, and therefore all massive bodies are sure to attract one another.
Dionysius the Areopagite
A dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
William Blake
Disaster is the avenue of fortune; and fortune is the concealment for disaster.
Lao Tse
Imagination is always considered to be a faculty of forming images. But it is rather the faculty of deforming the images offered by perception, of freeing ourselves from the immediate images…if a present image does not recall an absent one, if an occasional image does not give rise to a swarm of aberrant images, to an explosion of images, there is no imagination.
Gaston Bachelard L’invitation au voyage
Mind can only triumph in its most perilous activities. No daring is fatal.
Paul Euard
To write poetry: you have to be prepared to die.
Theodore Roethke | 
