“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Beauty will save the world.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but “accessory” in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.

Never use the word ‘audience.’ The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don’t have an ‘audience’. They’re talking to a single person all the time.

She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away as soon as their money was spent. She said that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it.

She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away as soon as their money was spent. She said that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it.

The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but “accessory” in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.

Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

A heart without love is a bow without an arrow.

Take a bow, lover you played the part so well you almost had me believing.