Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
One can only blaspheme if one believes.
Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
It is nonsense to speak of ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.
The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
A shilling life will give you all the facts.
We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.
All pity is self-pity.
Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss.
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade.
All the literati keep An imaginary friend.
Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.