At midnight tears Run into your ears.
A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?