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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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Only through time time is conquered

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A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

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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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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, unless we know what we ought to be.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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