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

Quote by T S Eliot

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

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

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

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...

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.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

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;...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

So the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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...

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.