O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

murder your darlings

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.

You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.