In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

• What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
• In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
• No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
• It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.