O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Quote by T S Eliot

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

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...

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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...

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.

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...

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,...

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

So the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

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.

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

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 is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

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...

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

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