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