Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

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.

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

Art is the escape from personality.

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