Nature Is What You Don't

If What You Write Is True, It Will Not Be So Because Of What You Are As A Writer But Because Of What You Are As A Being. There Can Be No Literary Equivalent To Truth.

Spiritually, The Society We Have Is The Society Of Men With Women Present Only In Adjunctive Relation To Them, Not The Society Of Men And Women In Reciprocal Relation. We Do Not Have The Society Of Human Beings.

'god' Is The Name Given To The Most 'important' Human Idea. In English, As In Other Languages, The Original Sense Of The Word Is Obscure. But The Character Of The Name Is The Same In All Languages: It Is A Question. 'god' Is The Question 'is There Something More Important Than, Something Besides, Man?'

To A Poet The Mere Making Of A Poem Can Seem To Solve The Problem Of Truth…but Only A Problem Of Art Is Solved In Poetry.

A Religion Addresses The Longing In Us To Have That Said From Which We Can Go On To Speak Of Next And Next Things Rightly, In Their Immediate Time - The Telling Of What Came First And Before Done Forever.