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It is always we who are to entertain the angels, and never they us. -- Samuel Butler _.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._ Not angels, but ghosts; curling like pink tea cups on any pillow, or kicking, showing their innocent bottoms, wailing for Lucifer. -- Anne Sexton, "Ghosts" _.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._ The angels are stooping Above your bed; They weary of trooping With the whimpering dead. -- Yeats, "A Cradle Song" _.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._ While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm. -- Edgar Allen Poe, from "Ligeia" _.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._ Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. -- Alexander Pope, from "An Essay on Man" _.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._ If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- James Madison _.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._ There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons. -- Aldus Huxley _.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._.oOo._ [Children] still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don’t expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer