"Loving someone always requires you to not love others."

"Benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others."

"A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it."

"As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the upper Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and r…"

"But the Japanese paper was what I loved, and now, so many years later, when I see some exquisitely laid piece of calligraphy by a student of Ogata Korin in a museum, I think first not of the spiritual…"