Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.