The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
Source: Interview in Writers at Work (Eighth Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1988), on the worrying fact that W. H. Auden was a formal churchgoer in later life.
-- Joseph Brodsky, (May 24 1940-1996), Russian-US poet; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems; first foreign-born US poet laureate, 1991.