In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.