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

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.