To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.