50 quotes
US-born British poet (1888–1965)
“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”
"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."
on Humor
"All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance."
on Knowledge
"We had the experience but missed the meaning."
on Life
"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
on Philosophy
"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."
on Writing
"Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow."
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
on Courage
"This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper."
"Your burden is not to clear your conscienceBut to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience."
"Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended"
on Relationships
"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
on Death
"Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish."
on Truth
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
"I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god"
on Nature
"A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident."
on Faith
"The journey not the arrival matters."
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
"If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you."
