“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

“Sit, be still, and listen,because you're drunkand we're atthe edge of the roof.”

“And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”

“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.”

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.”

“Beans are a roof over your head.”