If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.