Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.