The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.