Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Donne, I suppose, was such another / Who found no substitute for sense. / To seize and clutch and penetrate; / Expert beyond experience.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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...

What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd the wisdom of age? Had they deceived usOr deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,Bequeathing us merely a receipt...

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

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 who have personality and emotion...

music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you...

Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby “it.”

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the...

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

Footfalls echo in the memorydown the passage we did not taketowards the door we never openedinto the rose garden. My words echothus, in your mind

But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,And that is the name that you never will guess;The name that no human research can discover–But the cat himself knows, and will never confess.When you...

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you...

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.

This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids/Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.

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...

With Cats, some say, one rule is true:Don’t speak till you are spoken to.Myself, I do not hold with that —I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.But always keep in mind that heResents familiarity.I bow,...

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.

Birth, copulation and death. That’s all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

The clock has stopped in the dark.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

And what you thought you came foris only a shell, a husk of meaningfrom which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilledif at all. Either you had no purposeor the purpose is beyond the...

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man