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.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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.

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.