Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.