“...The Things we do not want to speak abot are the very things we need to speak about most”

“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”

“Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?”

“We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.”

“I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.”

“We cannot speak loudly or angrily at such times; we are not apt to be eager about mere worldly things, for our very awe at our quickened sense of the nearness of the invisible world, makes us calm and serene about the petty trifles of today.”