For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

The sun pours out like wine.

Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Your obstacles are not your end. Please remember that, and try again.

I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave.

Heading the show very thrilling personally, and an incredibly rare opportunity for growth on many levels in terms of workload and just pure skill. It's been fantastic.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.