We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.