Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Love works miracles in stillness.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.