Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

“Down in lovely muck I’ve lain,Happy till I woke again.”

“The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail.”

“Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, Th…”

“From far, from eve and morningAnd yon twelve-winded sky,The stuff of life to kn…”