Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.

A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, "Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?"

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Greatness comes with discipline.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.