 It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. |
| Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. |
| The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. |
| It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. |
| The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. |
| Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? |
| Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. |
| There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. |
| The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. |
| The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. |
| I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. |
| 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." |
| The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. |
| We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. |
| The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. |
| What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| So the lover must struggle for words. |
| Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. |
