"If you examine the highest poetry in the……" — Aleister Crowley
"If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable."
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Aleister Crowley
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152 Quotes by Aleister Crowley
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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