To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.