In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.
Where is the Life we lost in living?
With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'
In the mountains, there you feel free.
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
Do I dare disturb the universe?
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
In life there is not time to grieve long.
People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
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.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.
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