“Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”

“What we live by we die by.”

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“What are we?Young or new?We must be something.”

“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”

“The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.”

“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”