Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs rising or falling grasping...
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to...
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
We know too much and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a...
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist...
Poetry should help not only to refine the language of the time but to...
As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a...
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper...
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion it is...
You are the music while the music lasts.
This love is silent.
A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our...
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in...
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
I said to my soul be still and wait without hope For hope would be hope...
Home is where one starts from.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon...
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith But the faith...
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute and yet is...
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the...
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions but to use the ordinary...
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease...
Art never improves but... the material of art is never quite the same.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life...
