Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.