complexities quotes

For the beginning is assuredly the endsince we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

-William Carlos Williams
  Paterson, bk.1, preface.

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities The fury and the mire of human veins.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Byzantium', stanza1. Collected in TheWinding Stair and Other Poems (1933).