Half the harm that is done in this worldIs due to people who want to feel important.
Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow For Thine is the KingdomBetween the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow Life is v...
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the airThe air which is now thoroughly small and drySmaller and dryer than the will
And I must borrow every changing shapeTo find expression ... dance, danceLike a dancing bear,Cry like a parrot, chatter like an ape.Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance
All time is unreedemable.
After the torchlight red on sweaty facesAfter the frosty silence in the gardensAfter the agony in stony placesThe crying and the shoutingPrison and place and reverberationOf thunder of spring over dis...
Believe me, Michael:Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur,You will find your past...
We had the experience but missed the meaning.
Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it, That a man should have a consuming passion To do something for which he lacks the...
Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But these frontiers are not like the surveys of geographical explorers, conquered...
There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.
You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles’ heel.You will go on, and when you have prevailedYou can say: at this point many a one has failed.But what have I, but what have I, my friend,To give you, wh...
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
What have we given?My friend, blood shaking my heartThe awful daring of a moment's surrenderWhich an age of prudence can never retractBy this, and this only, we have existed.
The endless cycle of idea and action,Endless invention, endless experiment,Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;Knowledge of words, and ignorance of...
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.First of all, there...
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or longBut at my back in a cold blast I hearThe rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear
Shall we ever meet again?And who will meet again?Meeting is for strangers.Meeting is for those who do not know each other.