In my beginning is my end.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.