Mark Helprin Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

  Mark Helprin

  Book, Soul, Mules

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

• The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

  Mark Helprin

  Coffee, Espresso, Soul

• I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living

  Mark Helprin

  Clever, Soul, Requirements

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.520, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.

  Mark Helprin

  Love, Beautiful, Country

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

• We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

  Mark Helprin

  Art, Kings, Stars

• their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

  Mark Helprin

  Animal, Wind, Imagination

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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