But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.