“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

“O gods, \ If any gods will listen, I deserve \ Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, \ But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away \ From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me \ Both life and death! -- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”

“He who can believe himself well, will be well.”

“or that writing a poem you can read to no oneis like dancing in the dark.”

“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”