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

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.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

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.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.