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„In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home.“
„Who is the third who walks always beside youWhen I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look ahead up the white roadThere is always another one walking beside you“
„When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.“
„What is that sound high in the airMurmur of maternal lamentationWho are those hooded hordes swarmingOver endless plains, stumbling in cracked earthRinged by the flat horizon onlyWhat is the city over the mountainsCracks and reforms and bursts in the violet airFalling towersJerusalem Athens AlexandriaVienna LondonUnreal“
„Then it seemed as if men must proceed from light to light, in the light of the Word,Through the Passion and Sacrifice saved in spite of their negative being;Bestial as always before, carnal, self seeking as always before, selfish and purblind as ever before,Yet always struggling, always reaffirming, always resuming their march on the way that was lit by the light;Often halting, loitering, straying, delaying, returning, yet following no other way.“
„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.“
„What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.“
„Those who have crossedWith direct eyes, to death’s other KingdomRemember us — if at all — not as lostViolent souls, but onlyAs the hollow menThe stuffed men.“
„No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.“
„The work of creation is never without travail“
„Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.“
„Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat —And there isn’t any call for me to shout it:For he will doAs he do doAnd there’s no doing anything about it!“
„Wavering between the profit and the lossIn this brief transit where the dreams crossThe dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying“
„When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?“
„The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.“
„RedeemThe time. RedeemThe unread vision in the higher dreamWhile jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.“
„Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death’s dream kingdom´These do not appear:There, the eyes areSunlight on a broken columnThere, is a tree swingingAnd voices areIn the wind’s singingMore distant and more solemnThan a fading star.“
„These modern productions are all very well,But there’s nothing to equal, from what I hear tell,That moment of mysteryWhen I made historyAs Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.“
„It is not the “greatness,” the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.“
„Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, “tradition” should positively be discouraged. We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand; and novelty is better than repetition. Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense, which we may call nearly indispensable to anyone who would continue to be a poet beyond his twenty-fifth year…“
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