If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

For whatever you live is life.

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.