When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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

In the end is my beginning.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.