9 quotes
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a "suspension of belief." A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
Of course, Behaviorism "works." So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)