This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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.