Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.