Quote by Stéphane Mallarmé

“Under the penitential gates Sustained by staring Seraphim Where the souls of the devout Burn invisible and dim.”

— T.S. Eliot

“...There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient…

— Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

“There was a Being whom my spirit oft Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft. A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and…

— James Russell Lowell

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“She went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below. All the mystery and witchery…

— Kate Chopin

“The times, the seasons, the signs may have been mythical; but the sufferings were not. I lay in the dark with the breathing of…

— M.T. Anderson

“And others came... Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veil'd Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Between the Pedestals of Night and Morning Between red death and radiant desire With not one sound of triumph or of warning Stands the…

— James Elroy Flecker

“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And…

— Katharine Mary Briggs

“Place thy foot upon thy slave, Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams; Among the shadows, dark and grave, Thy extended body softly…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch