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.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?