You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.