The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Water is the soul of the Earth.
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
Now is the age of anxiety.
All I have is a voice.
We were put on this earth to make things.
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.
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