Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.