Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.