The Office Of Poetry Is

... Religious Controversy Does Only Harm. It Destroys Humble Inquiry After Truth, And Throws All The Energies Into An Attempt To Prove Ourselves Right-a Spirit In Which No Man Gets At Truth.

Only So Far As A Man Believes Strongly, Mightily, Can He Act Cheerfully, Or Do Anything That Is Worth Doing.

To Turn Water Into Wine, And What Is Common Into What Is Holy, Is Indeed The Glory Of Christianity.

God's Highest Gifts--talent, Beauty, Feeling, Imagination, Power--they Carry With Them The Possibility Of The Highest Heaven And The Lowest Hell. Be Sure That It Is By That Which Is Highest In You That You May Be Lost.

Earth Has Not A Spectacle More Glorious Or More Fair To Show Than This Love Tolerating Intolerance; Charity Covering, As With A Vail, Even The Sin Of The Lack Of Charity.