O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?