Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

I've been born, and once is enough.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.