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...
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
Home is where one starts from.
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Poetry is a mug's game.
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
Not the intense moment
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
In my beginning is my end.
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
So the lover must struggle for words.
If we all were judged according to the consequencesOf all our words and deeds, beyond the intentionAnd beyond our limited understandingOf ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.