Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting