Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.