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- Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
- 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…
- At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But…
- And right action is freedom From past and future also.
- 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…
- The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.
- Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
- At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I…
- There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
- A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual;…
- We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.…
- But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the…
- I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the…
- The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.
- A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
- The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the…
- Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life…
- Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,
- The end is where we start from.
- The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule.…
- When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer?…
- Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
- Art is the escape from personality.
- The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
- At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
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