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- I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,…
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men…
- Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
- Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one…
- I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
- What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
- It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are,…
- That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented…
- The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
- When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
- One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is,…
- I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't…
- We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for…
- 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.…
- If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
- Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
- It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
- We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
- A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't…
- Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up…
- We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And…
- Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we…
- Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place...
- To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order…
- For you know only a heap of broken images
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