In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
Water is the soul of the Earth.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.
All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
We were put on this earth to make things.
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
Now is the age of anxiety.
All I have is a voice.
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
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