Humankind can't stand too much reality.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Talent imitates, genius steals.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.