It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.