Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

It is my belief that when a child has been robbed of their visionary rights that they gravitate toward religion and spirituality in an effort to regain their Subjective autonomy.

Jesus Christ is our spring board to promotion and prosperity.

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.

Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Great," Percy said. "Seven of us against Hercules." "And a satyr!" Hedge added. "We can take him.