Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.
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.
The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.
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