The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
T.S. Eliot Quotes
We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
I grow old – I grow old – I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
I have never known a man, of any nationality, to live so long out of his native country without seeming to settle anywhere else. (Ezra Pound)
Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.