War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

I've been born, and once is enough.

The work of creation is never without travail.