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 ways we miss our lives are life.

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.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

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

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.