My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself. '
In the New World, happiness is enforced.
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
As I reread each book of the Bible, I fell in love all over again - not just with God's Word, but with God himself.
Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.
One day you're in. The next day you're out.