Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.