Poetry speaks for itself. There is not much that can be said to “sum up” what these poems have been saying. But we are all human, and therefore we can gather around these timeless lines and see ourselves and others yet more clearly. The final lines for this experience come from George Herbert’s poem, The Elixir:

A man that looks on glass
On it may stay his eye
Or if he pleaseth through it pass
And then the heaven’s espy.