Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
T.S. Eliot Quotes
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
Men ought to be explorers, Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion.
For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood. Flesh and blood is weak and frail, Susceptible to nervous shock; While the True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock… Blood of the Lamb shall wash him […]
Has the Church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the Church?
If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready-made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries […]
