And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.