“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”

“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”

“Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.”

“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”

“In nature there are few sharp lines.”

“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”