Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

Only through time time is conquered

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.