History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.

I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.