The work of creation is never without travail.

and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.