What is now proved was once only imagined.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.