My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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.
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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.