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Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping,...

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From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves...

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The wound kills that does not bleed. It has no nurse nor kin to know Nor kin to care.

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Now, the wry Rosenbloom is dead And his finical carriers tread,...

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with our bones We left much more, left what still is The look of things, left what we felt At what we saw.

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We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant...

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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends...

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If her horny feet protrude, they come To show how cold she is, and dumb.

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Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Life

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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