Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.