Solitude

(Found here)

When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,
How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

~William Wordsworth

In deepest solitude
I found the narrow way:
a secret giving such release
that I was stunned and stammering
rising above all science.
~St. John of the Cross