It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.

For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

There's no lack of void.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.