William Butler Yeats Quotes on Faith
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
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I that have not your faith, how shall I know That in the blinding light beyond the grave We'll find so good a thing as that we have lost? The hourly kindness, the day's common speech, The habitual content of each with each When neither soul nor body has been crossed.
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O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name.
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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary. Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeller.
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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Then he struggled with the mind; His proud heart he left behind. Now his wars on God begin; At stroke of midnight God shall win. Supernatural Songs, IX, The Four Ages of Man