Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee