To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow”
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 we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.