When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown, ch. 8 (1937).Rudyard Kipling
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The writer must define his audience by its abilities, by its perfections, so far as he is gifted to conceive them. He does well, if he cannot see his right audience within immediate reach of his voice, to direct his words to his spiritual ancestors, or to posterity, or even, if need be, to a coterie. The writer serves his daemon and his subject. And the democracy that does not know that the daemon and the subject must be served is not, in any ideal sense of the word, a democracy at all.
Lionel Trilling
First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.
Judah P. Benjamin
Be not impatient in delay,
But wait, as one who understands.
When spirit rises and commands,
The world is ready to obey.James Allen
Was it not better so to lie?
The fight was done. Even gods tire
Of fighting... My way was the wrong.
Now I should drift and drift along
To endless quiet, golden peace...
And let the tortured body cease.Stephen Vincent Benet
To love life and men as God loves them —
for the sake of
their infinite possibilities,
to wait like Him,
to judge like Him,
without passing judgment,
to obey the order when it is given
and never look back.Dag Hammarskjold
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