Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
George SantayanaSkepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
George SantayanaA sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
George Santayana