The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.