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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" This love is silent. "

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

" Home is where one starts from. "

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. "

" 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. "

" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "

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

" 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.' "