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.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

We shall not cease from exploration