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For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

No god save self, that is the way to live ...

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

I love you, what star do you live on?

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man,and hold on to your umbrella! Have you got your garters on? Mind your hat! ("Mr. Arcularis")

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust,
The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

Life is the thing
the song of life
The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

[At a musical concert:] ... the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;
It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

Death is never an ending, death is a change;
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Cosmos mariner destination unknown

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead,
The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

The truth
a hideous spectacle!

Music I heard with you was more than music. And bread I broke with you was more than bread.