The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.