Si sta come d’atunno
sugli alberi le foglie
- Ungaretti -

Without mystery, life would be-unbreatheable

in una sola città,
in un solo paese,
in un solo universo,
vivere in un solo mondo
è prigione.

Conoscere una sola lingua
un solo lavoro
un solo costume
una sola civiltà
conoscere una sola logica
è prigione.

- Nhindo -

No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee. 

-- John Donne