"All this technology has somehow made you a stranger in your own land."

"The most depraved type of human being … (is) the man without a purpose" (Atlas Shrugged)

"You were a child forgot Lessons of love untaught Now no embrace can quite replace The one that never found you I was raised tenderly All that was taught to me I will apply, your parents tried but they didn't know how to" (A Fine Frenzy)

"He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees." (The Great Gatsby)

"Absence, Or presence ever at play: Let those scorn you who never Starved in your dearth. If I Dare to disparage Your harp of shadows I taste Wormwood and motor oil, I pour Ashes on my head. You are the wound. You Be the medicine." (Robert Pinsky)

(source: Jean Fan)