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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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