I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.
We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.
