Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.