• Thought and Reason

  For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

  3.4 · 22 votes · 9 reads

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• Feelings

  Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

  3.1 · 23 votes · 17 reads

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• Various

  Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  3.5 · 23 votes · 18 reads

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• Society

  Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  4.0 · 48 votes · 85 reads

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• Time

  Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  3.5 · 42 votes · 174 reads

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• Time

  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.

  4.0 · 59 votes · 166 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

  4.7 · 18 votes · 138 reads

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• Feelings

  I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  4.6 · 28 votes · 98 reads

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• Government and Politics

  If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

  4.0 · 61 votes · 54 reads

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• Art and Culture

  In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

  3.4 · 43 votes · 39 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

  4.5 · 58 votes · 36 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

  4.3 · 5 votes · 98 reads

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• Society

  Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

  3.4 · 33 votes · 199 reads

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• Feelings

  Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

  3.0 · 53 votes · 110 reads

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• Feelings

  Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

  4.4 · 16 votes · 51 reads

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• Society

  Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Chr

  3.1 · 40 votes · 42 reads

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• Time

  Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

  4.1 · 18 votes · 35 reads

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• Feelings

  Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.

  4.8 · 32 votes · 38 reads

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• Various

  People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  3.6 · 15 votes · 71 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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 we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things

  3.5 · 61 votes · 81 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  4.5 · 5 votes · 130 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  3.1 · 54 votes · 180 reads

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• Society

  Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

  4.8 · 48 votes · 100 reads

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• Nature

  The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

  4.4 · 29 votes · 133 reads

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• Various

  The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  3.7 · 49 votes · 52 reads

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• Time

  The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  3.6 · 41 votes · 113 reads

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• Time

  The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

  3.5 · 26 votes · 128 reads

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• Society

  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.

  3.5 · 39 votes · 71 reads

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• Time

  Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

  3.7 · 34 votes · 73 reads

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• Government and Politics

  War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

  3.8 · 39 votes · 136 reads

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• Art and Culture

  We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of critici

  3.2 · 11 votes · 19 reads

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• Art and Culture

  When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

  3.9 · 34 votes · 92 reads

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• Art and Culture

  When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same wa

  3.2 · 9 votes · 172 reads

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• Defects

  Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

  4.8 · 28 votes · 149 reads

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• Art and Culture

  You are the music while the music lasts.

  4.2 · 49 votes · 106 reads

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• Life2 of their quotes
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