Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. – William Wordsworth
Father! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name. – William Wordsworth
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. – William Wordsworth
I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his limits of fully realizing his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. – James Agee