That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!
You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.
Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot be the artistic aim. Art is about necessity, not about human will. Society is more and more brainwashed and mistakes itself for art.
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity
Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.