Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
The ways we miss our lives are life.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.