It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.