The Family Reunion

I don't belong to any generation.

— The Family Reunion

The man who returns will have to meet The boy who left.

— The Family Reunion

Thus with most careful devotion Into perfect misunderstanding

— The Family Reunion

All that I can hope to make you understand Cannot understand the unimportance of events.

— The Family Reunion

This is what matters, but it is unspeakable. Because the particular has no language.

— The Family Reunion

You isolate the single event Not my mind, that is diseased, but the world I have to live in.

— The Family Reunion

Hold tight, hold tight, we must insist that the world is what we have always taken it to be.

— The Family Reunion

I see more than this, more than I can tell you, More than there are words for. Which now and then emerge.

— The Family Reunion

One thing you cannot know: Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

— The Family Reunion

If I tried to explain, you could never understand; Explaining would only make a worse misunderstanding...

— The Family Reunion

It's all a delusion, That's wrong, a good that is misdirected.

— The Family Reunion

Pain is the opposite of joy, Is the season of sacrifice

— The Family Reunion

It is only when they see nothing Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

— The Family Reunion

To rest in your own suffering Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

— The Family Reunion

The moment of sudden loathing All twined and tangled together, all are recorded.

— The Family Reunion

There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything

— The Family Reunion

Everything is true in a different sense, would have seemed the ruin.

— The Family Reunion

Accident is design In a cloud of unknowing.

— The Family Reunion

Harry has crossed the frontier And he cannot return. That is his privilege.

— The Family Reunion

I've no gift of language, but I'm sure of what I mean: That accounts for what happens to them. You get a feeling of it.

— The Family Reunion

He is every bit as sane as you or I, It is only that he has seen a great deal more than that.

— The Family Reunion

The circle of our understanding We do not know much about thinking.

— The Family Reunion