Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
The thing that is believed is a reality.
The English language is nobody's special property.
To change your language you must change your life.
The word and the shadow of the word makes a thing both itself and something else till we are metaphors and not ourselves. . .
Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna
The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision