If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
Things are always terrible for some people. The question is the ratio of the palpable hurt to the general session of life in an era.
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
Things take the time they take. Don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
[...] to me a new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself [...]
A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
