The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.