It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

Humankind cannot stand reality.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

not fare well, but fare forward

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.