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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" This love is silent. "

" O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. "

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

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There is no method but to be very intelligent. "

" 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. "

" In my beginning is my end. "

" So the lover must struggle for words. "

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

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

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

" Humankind cannot bear very much reality. "

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

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

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