“And then the car was beside him, not idling but panting like a deadly animal which may or may not be tamed.”
“Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.”
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.”
“The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.”
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with strange aeons even death may die.”
“Man himself, meeked by his Creator, may when taught and tamed, share the divine life.”