I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

A man’s conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn’t do — but it does not keep him from doing it.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven’s pale candles stored.

The poetry of earth is never dead:

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

No cross no crown.

Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

To err is human (to forgive divine).

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his...

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when...

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in...

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests...

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Art is born of humiliation.

The teachers I had myself, the best of them were quite extraordinary, and really did inspire one into reading, or indeed, writing.

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused...

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

You don’t want madhouse and the whole thing there.

It’s not as if I’m trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

Where ignorance is bliss, Itis folly to be wise.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Wickedness is its own punishment.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state...

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.