Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.