Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.