Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Quote by T S Eliot

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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...

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths;...

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths;...

So the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

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,...

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

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...

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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...

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be...

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be...

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...

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...

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...

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 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,...

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...

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was...

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was...

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.