Ash-Wednesday Quotes

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent if the unheard, unspoken word is unspoken, unheard; still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard, the Word without a word, the Word within the world and for the world; and the light shone in darkness and against the Word the unstilled world still whirled about the centre of the silent Word.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessèd face and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again.

Because I do not hope to turn again, because I do not hope, because I do not hope to turn, desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things.