Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
You are the music while the music lasts.
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.
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
Home is where one starts from.
This love is silent.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.