Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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.
Poetry is a mug's game.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
Home is where one starts from.
Not the intense moment
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
In my beginning is my end.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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 emoti...
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.