Enjoy When You Can, And Endure When

However Often We Turn To It [the Koran] At First Disgusting Us Each Time Afresh, It Soon Attracts, Astounds, And In The End Enforces Our Reverence. . . . Its Style, In Accordance With Its Contents And Aim Is Stern, Grand, Terrible - Ever And Anon Truly Sublime - Thus This Book Will Go On Exercising Through All Ages A Most Potent Influence.

Translators Can Be Considered As Busy Matchmakers Who Praise As Extremely Desirable A Half-veiled Beauty. They Arouse An Irresistible Yearning For The Original.

Colors Are The Deeds/ And Sufferings Of Light.

There Is No Greater Consolation For Mediocrity Than That The Genius Is Not Immortal.

Modern Poets Add A Lot Of Water To Their Ink.