George William Russell
George William Russell
George William Russellwho wrote with the pseudonym Æ, was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, artistic painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a central personage in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 April 1867
CountryIreland
time plums spirit
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
trying mountain doe
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
whiskey throat procession
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
spiritual unconquerable-will world
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality.... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
hate people movement
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
dream fate flames
We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
hero childhood sorrow
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.
blow men wind
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
law morality human-nature
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
running men rivals
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
laughter heart tired
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
pain lying thinking
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
forgive-me joy forgiving
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
spiritual hate fighting
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.