Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.