In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.