"Some thoughts always find us young ...."

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.  Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whom the heart of man shuts out ...."

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in

James  Russell  Lowell

"There is no excellent beauty ...."

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion.

Francis Bacon

'Poem'

I loved my friend.

He went away from me.

There’s nothing more to say.

The poem ends,

Soft as it began –

I loved my friend.

Langston Hughes

"To watch us dance ...."

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

Hopi Indian saying