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.
You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
Past art is subject to change.
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
Humankind cannot stand reality.
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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