Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 26.
“The Circle,” p. 39
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Conversations with Atoms”
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Context: Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age. The novelty of these things, as well as some consequences which followed from them in contradiction to the physical notions commonly held among academic philosophers, stirred up against me no small number of professors — as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands in order to upset nature and overturn the sciences. They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction.<!-- ¶1
"Love Will Find A Way" (1968); written with Jimmy Holiday and Randy Myers
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
“Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
"Credences of Summer"
Collected Poems (1954)
Context: One of the limits of reality
Presents itself in Oley when the hay,
Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is
A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.…
Things stop in that direction and since they stop
The direction stops and we accept what is
As good. The utmost must be good and is…
