There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing