If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it.

Quote by TS Eliot

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Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Those who trust us educate us.

Those who trust us educate us.

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...

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...

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

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...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

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...

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another...

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another...

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...

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...

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we...

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we...