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" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

" In my beginning is my end. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" So the lover must struggle for words. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. "

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

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

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

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

" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

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

" 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. "

" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "

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

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

" 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. "

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