When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.