A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.