The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
My mother was an atheist. She used to say that there was good news and bad news about hell. The good news is, hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.
"The city is my subject. It's endlessly fascinating to me."
"The poet's job is to pay attention, then to pay attention to what they've paid attention to."
"I’ve practiced so much that I don’t need to think before I play. It’s like driving a car—you don’t think about which pedals to push."
The fundamental 'formula' of Gestalt theory might be expressed in this way: There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole.