The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be — The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea. - Robert Frost

We love the things we love for what they are.

“Men work together,” I told him from the heart, “Whether they work together or apart.”

"Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct."