But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.