To Be Able To Be Caught Up

Our Word 'idiot' Comes From The Greek Name For The Man Who Took No Share In Public Matters.

There Is A Field Where All Wonderful Perfections Of Microscope And Telescope Fail, All Exquisite Niceties Of Weights And Measures, As Well As That Which Is Behind Them, The Keen And Driving Power Of The Mind. No Facts However Indubitably Detected, No Effort Of Reason However Magnificently Maintained, Can Prove That Bach's Music Is Beautiful.

...a Chasm Opened In The Earth And Out Of It Coal-black Horses Sprang, Drawing A Chariot And Driven By One Who Had A Look Of Dark Splendor, Majestic And Beautiful And Terrible. He Caught Her To Him And Held Her Close. The Next Moment She Was Being Borne Away From The Radiance Of Earth In Springtime To The World Of The Dead By The King Who Rules It.

Poetry And Preaching Do Not Go Well Together; When The Preacher Mounts The Pulpit The Poet Usually Goes Away.

There Are Few Efforts More Conducive To Humility Than That Of The Translator Trying To Communicate An Incommunicable Beauty. Yet, Unless We Do Try, Something Unique And Never Surpassed Will Cease To Exist Except In The Libraries Of A Few Inquisitive Book Lovers.