The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

I longed to know the world's name.