Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.