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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.
Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.
A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.