Man's Greatest Activity

Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

A Name in a Foreign Tongue

It is a sad fate for a people to be defined for posterity by their enemies.

Other Statements of Faith

I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract

Motivation

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final ending is bound to end in disaster.

Foreseeing Difficulty

Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck, people call it.

Looking at the Natural Bridge

It is impossible for the emotions , arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven, the rapture of the Spectator is really indescribable!

Writing Letters

hey say you were something in those formative years

Speaking Your Part

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from wihin, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.

Coming from You

You must speak as if
to be understood is expected,
not longed for.

Light in His Eyes

He played a dance they play in some parts of Italy
when the harvest of grapes is over and the wine
presses are ready for work

Blackbirds in Another Season

But now in July they're back and everything is at its alivest and every foot of these sloughs is humming and cricking and buzzing and chirping, a whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum.

Why Search Outside

Ever after he urged his friends: "Open your own treasure house and use those treasures."

Simplicity

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

The Characters of Crisis

One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.