People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.