Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.