The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.