No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.