The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.