We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

The dark is light enough.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

Equality is a mortuary word.