Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Quote by TS Eliot

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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...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

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.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

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...

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong...

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong...

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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...

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And...

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And...

In my end is my beginning.

In my end is my beginning.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

Apologizing isn't a sign of being weak. It's a sign of being the bigger person...

Apologizing isn't a sign of being weak. It's a sign of being the bigger person...

Dont worry about what people say behind your back, they're the people who're finding faults...

Dont worry about what people say behind your back, they're the people who're finding faults...