Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just because there is no logical place for it, no room in reality for it. It is unreal, and yet real as something unreal.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.