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

And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.