Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Humanity Quotes

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the...

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the...

Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

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...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should...

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should...

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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

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

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They...

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They...

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.