God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.