Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Spirituality Quotes

This second line establishes the existence of a soul right way. Sounds spiritual to Shmoop.

There are angels among us. And we're not talking about Nicholas Cage. In this poem, the spiritual world is a part of the everyday world, even laundry drying on the line. Sure, it seems like an unlikely place to find an angel, but hey, isn't that precisely the point?

Sure, a clothesline seems like an unlikely place to find an angel, but hey, isn't that precisely the point? Angels are all around, if we look hard enough (or let our souls float freely before we wake up).

Impersonal breathing? How can breathing be impersonal? Isn't a person doing the breathing? Not here, no siree. These angels are breathing, and it's impersonal because they're not people—they're from heaven. They're of the spiritual world.

In this line, Wilbur reminds us that the spiritual world is everywhere; it's not confined to a specific place.

Here's the start of the soul's wish for the human world to converge with the spiritual. And remember, it wishes that out of love.

Spiritual double-duty here. Nuns are spiritual humans; they're supposed to be the go-betweens between humans and God. But also, "a pure floating" brings us back to the floating angels at the poem's beginning.