To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.