Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
A lonely impulse of delight
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.