incarnation quotes

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

Shakespearethe nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

- Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier
Quoted in Kenneth Harris Talking To†,'Sir Laurence Olivier'.

And, by the incarnation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O,Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Ode to theWestWind', l.65^70.