I am a book I neither wrote nor read. - Delmore Schwartz

In this our life there are no beginnings but only departures entitled beginnings, wreathed in the formal emotions thought to be appropriate and often forced. Darkly rises each moment from the life which has been lived and which does not die, for each event lives in the heavy head forever, waiting to renew itself.

Call us what you will: we are made such by love.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.