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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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...the still point in a turning world.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Past art is subject to change.

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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

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