Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2268212&forum_id=2#23289924)

in all that you do or say or think, recollect that the power of withdrawal from life is in your hands.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2268212&forum_id=2#23289973)

"In the morning, I watch the boats come and go in the kanoya vicinity. When, after a boat passes, the white waves immediately fade away, I see my own transient experience in that, and am provoked to try to imitate the priest Mansei's elegant poetry, or, in the evening, if the wind blows in the maple trees, making the leaves sound, I recall the river at Jinyo, and I mimic the Minister Minamoto Tsunenobu in playing the biwa. When that has still not exhausted my mood, I try to skillfully combine the sound of the koto with that of the autumn wind through the pines, or the sound of a valley stream, as I accompany my prayer by playing on the biwa. I am clumsy in playing on the instrument, but, since no one else can hear it, it doesn't matter. Alone by myself in musical performance, or singing, it is only for personal enjoyment."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2268212&forum_id=2#23293257)

You do because something in your being recognizes itself as having an eternal destiny. You bristle against the corruptibility of this world precisely because you recognize it as something passing, something broken, something tainted by sin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2268212&forum_id=2#23290499)