I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away... and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.