Andrew Stout

“Although you be, as I am, one of those
Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose,
For poetry is magic: born in sin, you
May read it to exorcies the Gentile in you.”
― W.H. Auden

“But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien