Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

Humankind can't stand too much reality.