"How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

William Shakespeare. From The Merchant of Venice, around 1600.

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare. My business is to create."

"I give you the end of a golden string. Only wind it into a ball. It will lead you in at heaven's gate, built in Jerusalem's wall."

"Awake! Awake Jerusalem! O lovely emanation of Albion. Awake and overspread all nations, as in ancient time. For lo! the night of death is past and the eternal day appears upon our hills. Awake Jerusalem and come away."

William Blake. From Jerusalem, Plates 10, 77 and 97, around 1800.

"But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes."

Dr. Carl G. Jung. From a letter to Miss Fanny Bowditch, 1916.

"When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart, She produces a philosopher to speak her mind."

Kahlil Gibran. From Sand and Foam, 1926.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

J.R.R.Tolkien. From The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954.

"Earth no longer hymns the Creator, the seven days of wonder, the Garden is over - All the stories are told, the seven seals broken. All that begins must have its ending, our striving, desiring, our living and dying, for Time, the bringer of abundant days is Time the destroyer - "

Kathleen Raine. From Millennial Hymn to the Lord Shiva, 1999.