perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Peace is always loving and tranquil.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.