Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.