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

People find a way in which they can say something.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.