“Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.”

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.

Teach us to care and not to care

They say eyes don’t lie, but I mistook the distance in your eyes for depth.

Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.

You say: you are mourning a man that could not love you. Full stop. Cover the last word. There’s the truth.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.

You are all either a manifestation of my light or shadows.

There’s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

Isn’t there too much to say about what you are too scared to say.