Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense, which we may call nearly indispensable to anyone who would continue to be a poet beyond his twenty-fifth year; and the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
Hypatia·415 ADLife is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry·1942No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau·1782Never did I think so much, never did I realize my own existence so much, never was I so much alive, so much myself, as in those journeys which I made alone and on foot.
