Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
For he will do As he do do And there’s no doing anything about it!
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
We shall not cease from exploration.
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.
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
I’ve been born, and once is enough.
Only through time time is conquered.
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.