For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Past art is subject to change.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.