I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

All great things are done for their own sake.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.