We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.