Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.