QUOTE : Hugh sought the right words. "It's just that..." He pushed his hair back. And then he sighed. "I feel that if one is properly living life...an excess of rumination and metaphor can put you at a remove from all that's beautiful about it. If one takes advantage of all the senses - breathing, feeling, seeing... touching...tasting..." he tried not to look at Lillias "...then merely being alive is poetry.