Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in a country where nobody believes in anything any more. My whole life, I've been told: 'Western civi...
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would have resisted Hitler when he came to power. So the great shame is, clearly film critic...
As Michael Cunningham would later write in his novel The Hours, I thought what I was feeling was the beginning of happiness. In fact, it was happiness.
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.