A Man Of Courage Flees Forward In

Let Us Not Go Faster Than God. It Is Our Emptiness And Our Thirst That He Needs, Not Our Plentitude.

Absolute Atheism Starts In An Act Of Faith In Reverse Gear And Is A Full-blown Religious Commitment.

Art And Poetry Cannot Do Without One Another. Yet The Two Words Are Far From Being Synonymous. By Art I Mean The Creative Or Producing, Work-making Activity Of The Human Mind. By Poetry I Mean, Not The Particular Art Which Consists In Writing Verses, But A Process Both More General And More Primary: That Intercommunication Between The Inner Being Of Things And The Inner Being Of The Human Self Which Is A Kind Of Divination (as Was Realized In Ancient Times; The Latin Vates Was Both A Poet And A Diviner). Poetry, In This Sense, Is The Secret Life Of Each And All Of The Arts.

The Aim Of Education Is To Guide Young Persons In The Process Through Which They Shape Themselves As Human Persons-armed With Knowledge, Strength Of Judgment, And Moral Virtues-while At The Same Time Conveying To Them The Spiritual Heritage Of The Nation And The Civilization In Which They Are Involved.

Art Is A Creative Effort Of Which The Wellsprings Lie In The Spirit, And Which Brings Us At Once The Most Intimate Self Of The Artist And The Secret Concurrences Which He Has Perceived In Things By Means Of A Vision Or Intuition All His Own, And Not To Be Expressed In Ideas And In Words-expressible Only In The Work Of Art.