To know is not to pull apart nor to explain. It is to attain vision. But in order to see, we must first participate, and it is a hard apprenticeship.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras

Lightness for me is related to precision and definition, not to the hazy and haphazard. Paul Vale’ry said, “One must be light like the bird, not like the feather.”

Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium