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" Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. "

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" April is the cruellest month. "

" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "

" My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "

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

" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "

" The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. "

" Home is where one starts from. "

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

" 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. "