Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasio...
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
Trying to use words, and every attemptIs a wholly new start, and a different kind of failureBecause one has only learnt to get the better of wordsFor the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in...
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment h...
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has br...
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.