“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”

“There is no art without contemplation.”

“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”

“Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics:—missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe.—contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation.—universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.”

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”

“I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.”