Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?