ThursdayMay 29, 2025
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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 the first time.
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.
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
Those to whom nothing has ever happened, Cannot understand the unimportance of events.
The last temptation is the greatest treason; To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
However certain our expectation The moment foreseen may be unexpected When it arrives.
I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled... Do I dare to eat a peach.
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning.
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey.
Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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