Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

There will be time to murder and create.

It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.