If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

You're sitting there, with your wife and your baby and your smiling dog, and you're watching Real Housewives getting into fistfights on TV. And you go, 'How great is my life? I'm so happy right now.'

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.