The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
Time will say nothing but I told you so...
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
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.