"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." -William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close." -Robert Frost, "A Passing Glimpse"
"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -WB Yeats, "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
"For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea" -ee cummings, "maggie&milly&molly&may"
"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go." -Theodore Roethke, "The Waking"