In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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?