And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

We must learn to suffer more.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.