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.

Quote by T S Eliot

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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

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

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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

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

So the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.

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

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

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

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

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career,...

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career,...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...