The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese
Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)
Topic
Mystery is one of the most generative conditions of the human mind — the recognition that something important lies beyond what is currently known or knowable, and that this limit is an invitation rather than merely a boundary. The quotes gathered here examine mystery in its scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary forms, finding in all of them the same productive relationship to the unknown. The scientist who lives with mystery — who can hold an unsolved problem with curiosity rather than anxiety — makes a more reliable investigator than one who demands premature closure. The person who has made peace with the existential mysteries of consciousness, death, and meaning lives more steadily than one who demands certainty in domains where certainty is not available. These reflections also probe what mystery offers that full knowledge cannot: a quality of attentiveness, of openness, of sustained engagement with the world that familiarity tends to dissolve. Mystery, properly received, is not a problem but a permanent condition of a richly lived life.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese
The earth seemed unearthly.
The wilderness without a sound took him into its bosom again.
The wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion.