A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.