A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

A gramme is better than a damn.

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.