Horrored steamboats allied with ragged years, and outlines of muffled faces in autumn waters. I see nothing instant.

Gary J Shipley, Theoretical Animals

Consider also:

  1. “The value of a ritual is that it involves self-discipline and belonging. The ritual is pointless in itself so the doing of it is purely a matter of discipline and the willingness to do it.”
  2. “Chibi acted as she always did. Her interest was in her own natural talents, and the animal and plant kingdoms. The human world was of no concern”
  3. “at night they twinkled gaily with geometrical constellations, or else, flood-lighted, pointed their luminous fingers (with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the Savage now understood) solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.”
  4. “… For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.”
  5. “Words and their meanings cannot change much; their sounds are constant of a hidden content not related to our meanings.”