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" If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? "

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

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

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" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "

" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

" 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. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "

" 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. "

" Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. "

" 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. "

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

" Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. "

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

" In my beginning is my end. "

" Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. "

" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

" 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. "

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

" Home is where one starts from. "

" A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. "

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

" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "

" You are the music while the music lasts. "

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

" 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? "

" It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. "

" There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. "

" Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. "

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

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

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

" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "