"At the heart of death’s history lie not only the emotion of grief and the breaking of bonds between each other and our place in this world but also the hope of answering the queries and resolving the injustices of a lifetime."

"We know only too well that all over the world, from wayward undergraduate to B. B. C. producer to publisher's reader there are people, otherwise sensible and sane, people who would not believe in six-headed cats and blood-curdling spectral monsters, who yet read some folly about Noah's ark or Atlantis or cataclysmic world-tides, and say, with a contented sigh, "There may be something in it, you know.""

"I wasn't strong enough to withstand such strong opinions. I keep them in a trunk and, from time to time, will read one from long ago."

"One way of looking at poetic periods is to notice what contemporary interests and knowledge penetrate the best verse written at the time and what moods are permitted in treating of these matters."

"A poet educated to his finger tips will tend to be allusive"

"I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour."

"Are all men in disguise except those crying?"

"And silence matched the silence under snow."

"You sod, Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone"

"Praying is another way of singing. You plant in the tree the soul of lemons. You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses."