The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

Invest in the millenium.