The medieval mystics say
that the true image and the true real
met once and for all on the cross: once and for all:
and yet they still meet daily.
-Madeleine L'Engle
We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
-W. H. Auden
The Cross I chose to be my treasure of high value,
My body's plow it is and also my soul's anchor.
-Angelus Silesius
The cross stands there with roses woven thickly.
Who was it who with roses adorned the cross?
The coronal wreath on all sides unfurls richly,
Softening the stark wood's loss.
-Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe
