Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.