These fragments I have shored against my ruins

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.