Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
The end is where we start from.
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.
We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.
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.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
Teach us to care and not to care
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
Home is where one starts from.
No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
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