The shell must break before the bird can fly.

More from The Ancient Sage

• Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young.
• I am a part of all that I have met.
• I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
• I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, “O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well.”
• I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
• My eyes are full of tears, my heart of love, My heart is breaking, and my eyes are dim, And I am all aweary of my life.