Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

Related Quotes:

" Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? "

" And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. "

" 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. "

" Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. "

" This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. "

" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "

" In my beginning is my end. "

" The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. "

" Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. "

" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "

" Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. "

" The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. "

" 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. "

" Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. "

" Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. "

" The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. "

" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "

" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "

" The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. "

The Most Important

" 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.' "

" There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. "

" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" So the lover must struggle for words. "

" So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. "

" Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. "

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

" We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. "

" It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. "