Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

So the lover must struggle for words.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.