For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's.And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,Or when the milk is...
Love is most nearly itselfWhen here and now cease to matter.
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and f...
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow.This is the way the world ends.from The Hollow Man
And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.
Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable o...
If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas l...
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.