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