The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Heart Quotes, Mind Quotes

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...

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

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...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

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...

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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...

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

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...

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

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,...

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

The true poem rests between the words.

The true poem rests between the words.