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

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

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

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.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.