I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

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