Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.