Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
George SantayanaIf artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
George SantayanaThe Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George SantayanaSpirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
George Santayana