We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

Thought tends to collect in pools.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

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

Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.