But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Past art is subject to change.