“There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.”

“Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove,
Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother’s hate,
Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate
As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love:
He bears a load which nothing can remove,
A killing, withering weight.”

“Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing. T. S. Eliot writes in one of his poems, “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” Reflection is about getting the meaning.”

“One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.”

“Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.”

“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar.”

“There are who separate the eternal light
In forms of man and woman, day and night;
They cannot bear that God be essence quite.”

“To a Young Poet

Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.”

“I can live with the Mysteries; it is the Explanations I cannot bear.”

“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.”