Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence