-"Climbing to the Moon," fromWilliam Blake's The Gates of Paradise (1793), as reprinted in Symbol and Image in William Blake by George Wingfield Digby (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), plate 11.

Quotations:

• The humanist has always believed in mountain tops; there is no vision of the mountain tops in most universities.

    -- Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford
 
• You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"

    -- George Bernard Shaw
 
• You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

    -- Anonymous
 
• -- the long engagement with language, which I love as a sculptor loves wood or clay.

      -- Donald Hall
 
• The life of the mind is not coldly cerebral but impassioned.

       -- Nancy K. Miller

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