A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.