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

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.