Death is a Dialogue between,
The Spirit and the Dust.

-Emily Dickinson,
The Complete Poems


And I will show that nothing can
happen more beautiful than death.

-Walt Whitman,
Starting from Paumanok

Mystery

The most beautiful emotion we can
experience is the mystical.

-Albert Einstein,
Einstein, His Life and Times

Strength

O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

-William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Aspiration

What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.

-R. Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra

Adventure

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-
Nature's observatory; ...

-Keats, Sonnet: O Solitude

Freedom

O Freedom! if to me belong
Nor mighty Milton's gift divine
Nor Marvell's wit and graceful song,
Still with a love as deep and strong
As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shine!

-Whittier, Proem

Silence

Art is silence made clear.

-Jean Cocteau, La Rappel a l'Ordre

Passion

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but Passion is the gale.

-Pope, Moral Essays, I

Meditation

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds.

-Gray, Elergy Written in a Country Churchyard

Fire

Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see
Over the verge of the sundown
The beauty that is to be.

-Bliss Carman, Lord of the Far Horizons

Blaze

The world, an entity out of everything,
was created by neither gods nor men,
but was, is and will be
eternally living fire,
regularly becoming ignited
and regularly becoming extinghished.

-Heraclitus,The Cosmic Fragments