Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.