Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
The motive of success is not enough.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Shift from judgment to compassion to love.
When in doubt, wear what you want to wear. Not what you think the dress code is.
God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! it is not easy for God to make himself known to us!
No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.