What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

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

I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.