The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Only through time time is conquered

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.