Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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.