Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.