"Names preserve the dignity of Appearance. F. said: Science begins in coarse naming, a willingness to disregard the particular shape and destiny of each red life, and call them all Rose." ~ Leonard Cohen

"We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Quick now, here, now, always,
A condition of complete simplicity,
And all shall be well,
And all manner of thing shall be well." ~ T.S. Eliot 

"The Disciple" - Oscar Wilde

"When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.

And when they saw that the pool had changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, they loosened the green tresses of their hair and cried to the pool and said, 'We do not wonder that you should mourn in this manner for Narcissus, so beautiful was he.'

'But was Narcissus beautiful?' said the pool.

'Who should know that better than you?' answered the Oreads. 'Us did he ever pass by, but you he sought for, and would lie on your banks and look down at you, and in the mirror of your waters he would mirror his own beauty.'

And the pool answered, 'But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.'" ~ Oscar Wilde

"He showed me more, a little thing, the size of a hazel-nut, on the palm of my hand, round like a ball. I looked at it thoughtfully and wondered 'what is this?' and the answer came, 'it is all that is made'. I marvelled that it continued to exist and did not suddently disintegrate; it was so small." ~ Julian of Norwich
 

"We're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside." ~ Allen Ginsberg

"If the Sun & Moon should doubt. They'd immediately Go out." ~ William Blake

"People are suns, not moons." ~ Oscar Wilde

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet." ~ William Shakespeare

"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark." ~ William Shakespeare 

"It is not the future which surprises me in the present leading to it, it is the past which surprises me in the future I am discovering." ~ Eric Mechoulan