Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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