To be free is often to be lonely.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

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

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.