Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words. - David Zindell

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...

Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.

For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.