The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a progress start a scene or two Advise the prince no doubt an easy tool Deferential glad to be of use P...
You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation...
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
How wild it was, to let it be.
We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine
You are the music while the music lasts.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured...
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotio...