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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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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...

So the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

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

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

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

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...

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.

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.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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...

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,...

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.

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...

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who...

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who...