Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.