Witter Bynner Quotes

I am a miser of my memories of youAnd will not spend them.

Existence is beyond the power of words to define:Terms may be usedBut are none of them absolute.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

Words came out of the womb of matter;And whether a man dispassionatelySees to the core of lifeOr passionatelySees the surface,The core and the surfaceAre essentially the same,Words making them seem different . . .

Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,For brooks that I had crossed,Before I met this flesh and boneAnd followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,Yet name no name of ills.Say only, Here is where he passed,Seeking again those hills.

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.