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.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.