Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, / By reit — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? The Cry of the Children [1844], st. 1 Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. May the good God pardon all good men.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. Albert Einstein It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epicteto Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre It is better to fall from above the clouds than from the third floor. Machado de Assis