Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to…

Quote by T S Eliot

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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...

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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...

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,...

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

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...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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

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

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...

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

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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...

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...

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...