Raymond

“Meanwhile, the sword
began to wilt into gory icicles,
to slather and thaw. It was a wonderful thing,
the way it all melted as ice melts
when the Father eases the fetters off the frost
and unravels the water-ropes. He who wields power
over time and tide: He is the true Lord.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

“No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.”
― Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship

“Human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.

- Burnt Norton”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“God was singing through this little man to all the world.”
― Peter Shaffer, Amadeus