Brady

“What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former.”
― Northrop Frye, The Well-Tempered Critic

“The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.”
― Theodore Roethke

“Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
tát savitúr váreniyaṃ
bhárgo devásya dhīmahi
dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt”
― Maha Gayatri Mantra

“Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics