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.

Quote by T S Eliot

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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...

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the...

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the...

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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...

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

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

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one...

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

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

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

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...