Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or…

Quote by TS Eliot

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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...

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...

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

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

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.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

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...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the...

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the...

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...

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...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

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...

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

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...

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered.

Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered.

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried...

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried...