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.

I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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