Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow

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

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only fel ...

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.