Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

I was the world in which I walked.

Life is not free from its forms.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

The mind is smaller than the eye.