No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.