Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
Gardening is the instrument of grace.
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.
There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.
The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.