Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.