The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.