A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back.

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

It's impossible to give it all you got and fail unless you fail to give it all you got to do the impossible.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

There ought t'be some way t'eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you wuz steppin' on a basket.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.