I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. |
I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. |
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. |
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
I lecture and the folk seem easily pleased. I give a 'seminar,' nobody knows what about. I read poetry aloud. I go to cocktail parties, dinners and lunches. It is a terrible life. ... |
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. |
I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music. |
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. |
I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet fath. But the faith, and the love, and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. |
I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. |
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. |
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. |
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. |
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. |
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. |