We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. – Robert Frost
A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. – Robert Frost
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. – Robert Frost
A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. – Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. – Robert Frost
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough. – George Washington Carver
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede