“Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”

Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves.
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has — the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge — infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

80
Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)

Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. xi

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet

Fischerisms (1944)

Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Context: If, then, on the common land
I am no longer seen or found,
You will say that I am lost;
That, being enamoured,
I lost myself; and yet was found. ~ 29

Speech to centenary dinner of the Toronto Board of Trade (24 January 1944), quoted in The Times (25 January 1944), p. 3
Ambassador to the United States

Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)