that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.