I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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?
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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?
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.