Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.