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The Outermost House, 1928
“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.”
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"The Landing", from Spring Sowing (1924; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926) p. 70

“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”
As quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1942) by Edmund Fuller

“The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.”
Source: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1

Card I : The Magician http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot02.htm
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
Context: I Saw the Man.
His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle. He stood deep in foliage and flowers and his head, on which was the head-band of an initiate, seemed to disappear mysteriously in infinity.
Before him on a cube-shaped altar were four symbols of magic — the sceptre, the cup, the sword and the pentacle.
His right hand pointed to heaven, his left to earth. Under his mantle he wore a white tunic girded with a serpent swallowing its tail.
His face was luminous and serene, and, when his eyes met mine, I felt that he saw most intimate recesses of my soul. I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself.
And I heard a voice saying:
—"Look, this is the Great Magician!
"Sonnet II" in Scribner's Monthly Vol. IX (November 1874 - April 1875), p. 359.

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
The New York Times (3 December 1978)