“The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”

“The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”

“True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.”

“In the country whereto I goI shall not see the face of my friendNor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses;Together we shall not findThe land on whose hills bends the new moonIn air traversed of birds.What have I thought of love?I have said, "It is beauty and sorrow."I have thought that it would bring me lost delights, and splendorAs a wind out of old time . . .But there is only the evening here,And the sound of willowsNow and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water.-- from "Betrothed”