A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Wars are made to make debt.

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.