"The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
Harmonium (1923)
Variant: It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed:
The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps,
The aureole above the humming house...
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Source: Parts of a World (1942) "The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
“mind can drag the body and body can never drag the mind”
The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)
As quoted in "Van Wagenen Fellowship Richard M. Bergland 1968 Oxford University," American Association of Neurological Surgeons (2004)
“Small minds can never handle great themes.”
Grandes materias ingenia parva non sufferunt.
Letter 60
Letters
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Song lyrics, Sign O' the Times (1987)
“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”
XXII. 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 24
“You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVIII: On travel as a cure for discontent
Cited in: Carol A. Dingle (2000) Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization. p. 21
