The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

The living moment is everything.

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

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