Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.