Let no one enter who does not know geometry.
(inscription over the gate of his academy)
Elegies He probably held too tightly (In the palm of his hand, Looking out on the sea) To the sand…
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought…
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you…