The Mind Knows Only What Lies Near

All Things Are At Odds When God Sets A Thinker Loose On The Planet

Pain Is The Most Individualized Thing On Earth. It Is True That It Is The Great Common Bond As Well, But That Realization Only Comes When It Is Over. To Suffer Is To Be Alone. To Watch Another Suffer Is To Know The Barrier That Shuts Each Of Us Away By Himself Only Individuals Can Suffer.

None But A Poet Can Write A Tragedy. For Tragedy Is Nothing Less Than Pain Transmuted Into Exaltation By The Alchemy Of Poetry.

A Word Is No Light Matter. Words Have With Truth Been Called Fossil Poetry, Each, That Is, A Symbol Of A Creative Thought.

The Greater The Suffering Depicted, The More Terrible The Events, The More Intense Our Pleasure.