We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.