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.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

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

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

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