I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
  And Even Now,'The Pines'.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

-Bukowski, Charles
  Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

Canada isnot reallya placewhereyouare encouragedto have large spiritual adventures.

-Davies, Robertson
  Interviewed by Peter C Newman,'The Master's Voice', in Maclean's, Sep.

Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you have seen in the darkness so that it may react on others from the outside inwards.

-Friedrich, Caspar David
Quoted in Caspar David Friedrich1774^1840, Tate Gallery (1972).

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

-Fuller, Roy Broadbent
  'Translation'.

Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

-Hooker, Richard
  Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

Force is the same throughout and the whole is in every part of it. Force is a spiritual power, an invisible energy which isimparted by violence from without toall bodies out of their natural balance.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in  Jean-Paul Richter (ed)  The Literary  Works of Leonardo da Vinci (1939).

La Poe¤  sie est l'expression, par le langage humain ramene¤  e a'   son rythme essentiel, du sens myste¤  rieux des aspects de l'existence; elle doue ainsi d'authenticite¤ notre se¤  jour et constitue la seule ta"  che spirituelle. Poetry is an expression, through human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysteriousness of existence; it endows our life with authenticity and constitutes our only spiritual task.

-Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane
  Letter to M. Le¤  o d'Orfer, 27  Jun.

It comes to this: of whatever sort it is, it must be'lit with piercing glances into the life of things'; it must acknowledge the spiritual forces which have made it.

-Moore, Marianne Craig
Poems,'When I Buy Pictures'.

   The instinct of mankind warns it against accepting at their face value spiritual demands that cannot satisfy themselves by practical achievements. The road along which the organized workers, like any other class, must climb to power starts from the provision of a more effective economic service than their masters, as their grip upon industry becomes increasingly vacillating and uncertain, are able to supply.

-Tawney, R(ichard) H(enry)
  TheAcquisitive Society.

   There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joyand that it is this which will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  Possessing the Secret ofJoy, epigraph.