The Happiest of the Poets in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats.

“The desire seems not other than the desire of the bird for its mate in the heart of the wood, and we listen to that joyous praise as though a bird watching its plumage in still water had begun to sing in its joy, or as if we heard hawk praising hawk in the middle air, and because it is the praise of one made for all noble life and not for pleasure only, it seems, though it is the praise of the body, that it is the noblest praise.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “I often see him in my mind as I saw him once at Hammersmith holding up a glass of claret towards the light and saying, ‘Why do people say it is prosaic to get inspiration out of wine? Is it not the sunlight and the sap in the leaves? Are not grapes made by the sunlight and the sap?'”
  2. “Our purpose here is almost purely mechanical. It is to describe in detail how the symbolic forms of the Sigillum may be attributed, with proofs and demonstrations of those attributions. In doing so we hope to provide some insight into how this symbolic structure may be used as a framework and paradigm of magickal practice.”
  3. “a colour gets its brilliance or its depth from being in light or in shadow”
  4. “The joy of woman is the death of her beloved, Who dies for love of her, In torments of fierce jealousy and pangs of adoration. The lover’s night bears on my song, And the nine spheres rejoice beneath my powerful control.”
  5. “He may not have been, indeed he was not, among the very greatest of the poets, but he was among the greatest of those who prepare the last reconciliation when the Cross shall blossom with roses.”