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

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.