There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.
Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.
The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected".
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
