What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

At the still point, there the dance is.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.