“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we know we started and know the place for the first time.”

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

“Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”

“And the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time”

“We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”

“and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.”