For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

Art is the god you have not seen.

I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.

I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.

There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.