"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of a terror that we are still just unable to endure..."
--Ranier Maria Rilke, from Duino Elegies
"Who could tell what wonders waited then, when emotions were full and strong and sufficient, no longer greedy and grasping, when the senses could take in colour and essence and respond to all the delicate vibrations which now their clumsy dullness missed, when deprivation itself should be an intense means of experiencing both the deprived self and the thing of which it was deprived, when..."
--Charles Williams, from Shadows of Ecstasy
"But someone must say in general what's been unsaid among you this many a year: that love, as mortals understand the word, isn't enough. Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried."
--C.S. Lewis, from The Great Divorce
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