If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.